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San Francisco Board Of Appeals Reviewing 2700 Sloat Boulevard Today

BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON JULY 26, 2023

The San Francisco Board of Appeals is scheduled to review an appeal filed by the developer behind 2700 Sloat Boulevard regarding the zoning code interpretation by the city’s Zoning Administrator. The department argues that calculations behind the 50-story skyscraper in the Sunset District were an inaccurate interpretation of city code. In their appeal, CH Planning has provided examples of over a dozen approved projects that they say used similar methods of calculator.

According to plans published earlier this month, the 589-foot tower aims to create 680 apartments, of which 110 will be designated as affordable, retail, community space, and a new fitness center. Solomon Cordwell Buenz is the project architect. See our previous report for more details about the proposal.

CH Planning’s company, 2700 Sloat Holdings LLC, is being represented by Reuben Law. The primary focus of the appeal centered on the Zoning Administrator’s interpretation of the city’s Planning Code Sections 102 and 270 as published this March. The developer’s brief summarizes its three reasons for appealing the Zoning Administrator’s ruling as the following:

- It errs in creating a new bulk code limitation, unsupported by the language and intent of the Planning Code
- It abuses discretion by exceeding Zoning Administrator Authority under PC 307(a) and circumventing legislative process; and
- It violates the California Housing Crisis Act of 2019.

The brief also includes an illustrative list of previously-approved projects that could not be built based on the Zoning Administrator’s interpretation of the city code. These include the Oceanwide Center, One Rincon Hill, Infinity Towers, the proposed mixed-use Flower Mart, and the under-construction American Buddhist Cultural Society temple.

https://sfyimby.com/2023/07/sf-board-of-appeals-reviewing-2700-sloat-boulevard-today.html