[CPEO-BIF] Construction beginning at Irving Street affordable housing project, San Francisco, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This reporter has consistently failed to take seriously the risks from the soil gas plume at the property, contamination that reaches into the surrounding neighborhood. Even though construction is moving forward, neighbors continue to ask for soil vapor extraction. - LS]

One of S.F.’s most contentious land use battles ends with construction of new housing

By J.K. Dineen, 
San Francisco Chronicle
June 26, 2024

Three and a half years after Sunset neighbors mobilized to block an affordable housing project at 2550 Irving St., construction workers have fenced in the property and backhoes are parked next to piles of dirt, ready to start digging. 

The seven-story, 90-unit project, one of the most contentious in the annals of San Francisco land use fights, is significant because it will become a model — good or bad — for what it means to put dense affordable homes in a neighborhood that has been resisting density for decades. The area has added only 26 low-income units over the past few decades.

On Wednesday, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Joel Engardio celebrated the start of construction and expressed hope that the project would smooth the path for similar development on the city’s west side, including a 216-unit low-income senior project at 1234 Great Highway, a site currently occupied by the Rodeway Inn & Suites motel.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-housing-sunset-19541530.php

—

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org