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Old Posted Mar 16, 2005, 7:22 AM
FourOneFive FourOneFive is offline
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Rincon Hill update:

the final certification of the EIR (with changes to the city's general plan) goes before the planning commission on thursday, april 14th. if it passes, it goes before the board of supervisors in may. apparently, the first towers out of the gate once the EIR is certified will be one rincon hill.

new tidbit: there is still controversy surrounding 375 and 399 fremont. apparently, the proposed projects will be *grandfathered* by the planning department because they've been sitting in the pipeline for so long. rather than allowing two separate towers (375 fremont at 300' and 399 fremont at 350'), the towers will be combined into one 400' tower. the new tower with its accompanying midrise buildings will allow both developers to build nearly the same amount of units proposed in the two separate projects. residents are complaining though that the tower is inconsistent with the proposed Rincon Hill plan because four towers (the 2 avalon towers, the approved 325 fremont, and the proposed 375-399 fremont tower) will sit on the block bounded by fremont, harrison, beale, and folsom. in addition, the proposed tower will only be spaced 82.5' from the proposed 340-350 fremont, and will sit far closer to the existing avalon towers.
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