Vote Against UC on January 26
A note from Warren Dewar:
Dear neighbors,
Today I received a call from Pat Walkup concerning my proposed resolution regarding the zoning change at the Laguna Campus property. She had some good suggestions for minor changes in form, and provided some better factual information regarding the number of new family units called for by the environmental documents of the Better Neighborhoods Market-Octavia Plan. Apparently these documents indicate plans for 19,555 new households within the entire Market-Octavia area by the year 2025. I agreed that we should add this information to my proposed resolution because it provides additional support for the claim that there will be a much greater demand for Public Use Zoning with the increased population. The attached document is the revised proposed resolution which will be the subject of the January 26th meeting. I hope to see as many of you as possible at the January 26th meeting.
(Warren Dewar's resolution will be presented for a vote of the membership at the January 26 Meeting of the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association, #7 Octavia Blvd., Waller & Market, 7:00 p.m.)
PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR CONSIDERATION
AT THE JANUARY, 2006 HVNA MEETING
WHEREAS, the 5.8 acre tract of property at 55 Laguna Street, known as the Laguna Campus Property, has a history of continuous public use exceeding 150 years; and,
WHEREAS, in the early 1850’s, The City of San Francisco gave $30,000 to the Protestant Orphan Asylum Society to initially purchase the land and to construct a building housing an orphanage which was completed in 1854; and,
WHEREAS, in 1921, The City of San Francisco abandoned Waller Street where it formerly ran through the property, so as to assist further in the continued public use of the property which was then owned by the San Francisco State Normal School (later becoming San Francisco State Teachers College, and eventually San Francisco State University); and,
WHEREAS, in the mid 1950’s the property was transferred to the Regents of the University of California, who continued using the property for educational purposes; and,
WHEREAS, the property, with its buildings, constitute a resource of historic merit which should be preserved to the greatest extent possible; and,
WHEREAS, according to the environmental documents of the Better Neighborhoods Market-Octavia Plan, there will be 19,555 new households within the entire Market-Octavia area by the year 2025, thus increasing dramatically the public’s need for additional property zoned for public use; and,
WHEREAS, the current owner of the property, The Regents of The University of California, submitted a proposal for environmental review to the City Planning Department Environmental Review Division, seeking to permanently end the public use zoning for this entire property, and to convert the entire property to a high-density private residential housing development;
NOW, THEREFORE, The Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association, at its regularly-scheduled January, 2006 meeting of its members at which a majority of those present voted in favor of this resolution, hereby expresses its objection to the existing proposed project of the Regents, and urges the appropriate city agencies to deny the requested change to the existing Public Use Zoning for the property under the current proposal.
SUBMITTED BY:
Warren Dewar
137 Buchanan St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 626-2218
dewarlaw@msn.com
WHEREAS, the 5.8 acre tract of property at 55 Laguna Street, known as the Laguna Campus Property, has a history of continuous public use exceeding 150 years; and,
WHEREAS, in the early 1850’s, The City of San Francisco gave $30,000 to the Protestant Orphan Asylum Society to initially purchase the land and to construct a building housing an orphanage which was completed in 1854; and,
WHEREAS, in 1921, The City of San Francisco abandoned Waller Street where it formerly ran through the property, so as to assist further in the continued public use of the property which was then owned by the San Francisco State Normal School (later becoming San Francisco State Teachers College, and eventually San Francisco State University); and,
WHEREAS, in the mid 1950’s the property was transferred to the Regents of the University of California, who continued using the property for educational purposes; and,
WHEREAS, the property, with its buildings, constitute a resource of historic merit which should be preserved to the greatest extent possible; and,
WHEREAS, according to the environmental documents of the Better Neighborhoods Market-Octavia Plan, there will be 19,555 new households within the entire Market-Octavia area by the year 2025, thus increasing dramatically the public’s need for additional property zoned for public use; and,
WHEREAS, the current owner of the property, The Regents of The University of California, submitted a proposal for environmental review to the City Planning Department Environmental Review Division, seeking to permanently end the public use zoning for this entire property, and to convert the entire property to a high-density private residential housing development;
NOW, THEREFORE, The Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association, at its regularly-scheduled January, 2006 meeting of its members at which a majority of those present voted in favor of this resolution, hereby expresses its objection to the existing proposed project of the Regents, and urges the appropriate city agencies to deny the requested change to the existing Public Use Zoning for the property under the current proposal.
SUBMITTED BY:
Warren Dewar
137 Buchanan St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 626-2218
dewarlaw@msn.com
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