3400 Cesar Chavez
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On April 19th the Planning Department approved a market-rate condo development with a 24 hours Walgreens store at the northwest corner of Cesar Chavez and Mission where the Kelly Moore paint store used to be. The approved project by Seven Hills Properties is 50-feet and 4-stories high with 60 ownership units and 67 residential parking spaces. The developer is providing 9 "affordable" units to comply with the current inclusionary housing law that requires 15% of the units to be "below market rate". To support the Walgreens, the developer is also including 24 customer parking spaces, 12 spaces for employees and 1 car share space.
Instead of high priced condos and 24-hour Walgreens, what the Mission truly needs are 100% affordable housing and community space. The development as proposed is not in compliance with the City of San Francisco's General Plan or the recent Eastern Neighborhoods Planning rezoning requirements. As skyrocketing property values send families fleeing San Francisco, the Planning Department recognized the extraordinary need for more affordable housing in these working class neighborhoods when they recently adopted a policy that development in these neighborhoods should include affordable housing far in excess of the City-wide inclusionary housing requirements. These policies are an attempt to counterbalance the massive loss of affordable housing and blue collar jobs from the Eastern Neighborhoods during the recent wave of "live-work" conversions--conversions that change Production, Distribution and Repair ("PDR" also known as "light industrial") buildings to residential use without rezoning. Despite these policies, the Planning Department has now approved a project that doesn't even follow their own guidelines. It is an affront to our community that the Planning Department does not take the project approval process, the community's needs, or even their own policies seriously.
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The People’s Plan for Housing, Jobs, and Community presents a long-term vision for a healthy, sustainable, and equitable community in the Mission District. It is based on the needs and ideas expressed through focus groups, surveys, workshops, and small and large-scale community meetings organized by the Mission Antidisplacement Coalition since 1999, and it reflects the participation of hundreds of Mission residents and workers over seven years.