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Planning Commission approves revised 178 Townsend Street project with conditions and variances
Summary
The commission approved Martin Building Company’s revised 178 Townsend Street project, granting variances for parking and courtyard dimensions and requiring sponsor to continue working with staff on the Clarence Street elevation; project includes 94 units and 20% onsite BMR at 30% AMI, daycare space and voluntary LEED Gold.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on Sept. 3 approved a revised mixed-use conversion at 178 Townsend Street, granting variances for reduced parking and courtyard dimensions while imposing conditions that require continued work with planning staff on the Clarence Street elevation.
Planning staff described the project as adaptive reuse of a contributing historic building in the South End Historic District with a six-story insertion yielding 94 rental units, about 3,000 square feet of retail including daycare space, and 45 at-grade parking spaces. Staff noted a 15 percent on-site Below-Market-Rate…
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