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Committee refers rezoning and preservation designation for 175 Golden Gate Avenue to full Board
Summary
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted to send two ordinances to the full Board of Supervisors to rezone 175 Golden Gate Avenue, home to DeMerillac Academy, from RC-4 to C-3-G and to designate the building for preservation so it may participate in the city's transfer-of-development-rights program.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted March 4 to refer two related ordinances to the full Board that would rezone 175 Golden Gate Avenue and designate the building for preservation.
Supervisor Matt Haney said the property, home to DeMerillac Academy, is located in the Tenderloin and sits adjacent to Saint Boniface Church. Haney said the rezoning from RC-4 to C-3-G would make the site eligible to participate in the city's transfer-of-development-rights (TDR) program, a tool the city uses to preserve historic or community-serving buildings while allowing development potential to be transferred elsewhere.
"This ordinance would rezone the subject property at 175 Golden Gate from R C 4 to C 3 G, so that it can participate in the city's transfer of development rights," Haney said.
A planning department representative and the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) told the committee the HPC approved changing the building's designation to a Category 3 contributing building on Sept. 5, 2018, and that the Planning Commission unanimously approved the planning-code and zoning changes on Sept. 27, 2018. Aaron Starr of the planning department said he was available to answer questions.
Chair Peskin and other committee members discussed the value of TDRs. Chair Peskin said market values had declined and stated a figure of about $27.50 per square foot, and he estimated that the roughly 30,000 square feet of TDRs connected with the site would amount to about $800,000 in value "in exchange for permanent preservation of this category 3" building.
Larry Badner of Badner Urban Planning, representing the project sponsor, said he had "nothing to add except for I think it's on your calendar at the full board tomorrow afternoon, 1 of the last items, because we are on a slight 90 day time crunch." He offered to answer any questions.
Supervisor Haney moved to send both the general-plan map amendment and the planning-code/zoning map amendment to the full Board with a positive recommendation as a committee report. Chair Peskin called for objection; there was none. The committee ordered the referral to the Board and adjourned.
The full Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider the items on March 12, 2019. If adopted at the Board, the zoning change would permit the property to participate in TDR transactions and the preservation designation would be recorded as part of the approvals.
