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Commission approves conference-center use at 101 California Street, rebuffing calls to preserve ground-floor retail
Summary
The Planning Commission approved a conditional-use authorization to allow a conference center on the ground floor at 101 California Street, adding a finding that the approval is for a conference center configuration and including standard TDR conditions; Commissioner Moore voted no, citing concerns about downtown ground-floor retail and long-term retail recovery.
The San Francisco Planning Commission voted 4–1 on March 9 to approve a conditional-use authorization for 101 California Street, allowing the ground-floor space to be used as a conference center in the configuration shown in exhibit B and adding standard transferable-development-rights (TDR) conditions to the approval.
Commissioner Moore led the opposition, saying that years of planning aimed to keep offices above and active retail at street level and that approving…
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