The supervisors said a previously certified environmental impact report didn’t adequately address earthquake safety and didn’t include alternatives that might have lessened its “shadow impact” on nearby Mint Plaza. “We can’t keep rejecting new housing and then wondering why rents keep rising.” “This project met all the criteria for approval, and it would have created 500 new homes on what is currently a parking lot surrounded by tall buildings, located near transit,” Breed told the Chronicle. The Tenants and Owners Development Corporation hailed the end, at least for now, of what it had dubbed the “Monster on Sixth Street” after fighting against it since its inception in 2017. City planners must now draft a new environmental study for the project, which could take a year or two to complete and doesn’t come with a guarantee that the board will accept it.
at 469 Stevenson Street, now a parking lot owned and used by Nordstrom, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The board voted 8-3 this week to reject the planned development by Build Inc. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors blocked an already approved 495-unit residential project in SoMa, handing a victory to a local affordable housing group and drawing the ire of Mayor London Breed, who called it a “perfect example” of how the city became mired in a housing crisis. Lou Vasquez, managing director of Build Inc., in front of a rendering of the rejected project at 469 Stevenson St.
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