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Public Comments Received on Item #4
From:Samuel Lee
To:Planning Commission Comments
Subject:Southline Specific Plan Project Electronic Comment
Date:Monday, October 25, 2021 7:36:48 AM
Importance:High
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To whom this may concern:
I fully support this project to move forward and looking forward to this new development and its
positive impact on our community.
Thank you
Samuel Lee, P.E.
President
Grand Electric & Construction Co.
133 Tanforan Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066
Tel : (650) 588-5678, Fax : (650) 588-6678
Cell : (415) 830-2020
Item #4, Comment Letter 1
City of So. San Francisco October 29, 2021
400 Grand Ave.
So. San Francisco, Ca 94080
Project Title: Southline Specific Plan (EIR)
RE: Impact to Resident(s) of So San Francisco, Calif.
Comment Period
ATTN: ADENA Friedman, Sr. Planner
SSF Planning Division - [email protected]
Dear Ms. Friedman:
As a member of this community for over 40 years, this writing is to record my opposition to a plan that
would alter the City of South San Francisco General Plan in order to tear down old warehouse
businesses to put yet more bio-science labs, .1 mile from transit and West of Hwy 101.
The justification for such a project is not made in this plan or any part of this report as described,
appears unjustified and unnecessary but as “just because the City can”. It will be more building where a
community is experiencing building fatigue. I live in proximity to the San Bruno BART transit .3 miles in
one of the oldest neighborhoods in South San Francisco, Mayfair Village. This project would impact my
neighborhood and neighboring districts of Francisco Terrace, Brentwood and 2 local schools: Los
Cerritos Elementary School and South San Francisco High School campuses. They are in proximity within
2 miles from the proposed project.
It is not clear whether my opposition counts as reason not to proceed with amending the City General
Plan but I have several. Some are financial and some are quality of living concerns and questions.
Placing bio-labs on the west side of Hwy 101 in proximity to neighborhoods encompassing 2 cities of
San Bruno, and South San Francisco, expose residents to hazards as the bio-medical industry transfer of
bio-hazardous waste through neighborhoods periodically pose a risk to the health, in air quality and
safety to residents, unless the bio-labs are for bio-medical equipment. This is not mentioned in this
report. Will my property insurance increase as a result? What will residents suffer in the event of an
accident involving the transport of bio-lab waste materials? Residents are left with the questions and
the clean-up.
Another concern is the cost of toxic clean-up in the area of the warehouses in this report. The
environmental impacts are significant and unavoidable. The report lists 3 hazardous sites under The
Cortese List. 160 South Linden Avenue, 30 Tanforan Ave and 50 Tanforan Ave. The clean-up and cost to
the City (and Taxpayer) is unescapable pursuant to CEQUA. As in past recent projects such as the Oyster
Point Marina (former Dump), the City was forced to consider its liability risk to the community and has
taken a $10M insurance policy. The Southline Specific Plan is a burdensome expense to the
community’s taxpayer, by developing a site that poses financial and health risk unnecessarily.
This type of project has a tendency to render the cost of living to spiral out of control and represents
unbridled growth. As current housing units near or at completion do not appear to deliver the desired
result and solutions to the community’s shortage for affordable housing as a majority of the units are
Item #4, Comment Letter 2
not occupied and appear to fail to remediate acute housing needs, due to unaffordability, while
commuters swell the community daily to 100K, taxing local police and fire services.
The Cadence, a 160-unit development cannot fill its expensive lease units, reaching its 3rd year. This is
not responsible planning, as housing needs continues.
The Southline Specific Plan project and others East of 101 at Oyster Point Marina are against the wishes
of many in the community because it adds to the infrastructure load and high cost of living for City
residents. The Oyster Point development under construction removed once enjoyable vistas of the
marina. Every year for the past 5 years sewer fees ,trash, sales tax increases has caused the South San
Francisco Community to become unaffordable. Adding the cost of new bio-since labs is not a good idea,
fit, and irresponsible in the name of growth. The only reason to continue appears to keep City staff
busy.
When the So. San Francisco General Plan was approved, the community agreed it was to be
implemented in 20 years, yet the speed it is being implemented, by building thousands of units in less
than 10 years, has caused construction fatigue. The Southline Specific Plan hopes to amend the General
Plan for more unnecessary intrusive building in the lives of a small town that wants to remain a small
town. We are losing that small town feel, that jams this small community with more traffic, noise, poor
air quality further contributing to aircraft noise from nearby San Francisco Airport and from noisy 24 hr.
7 day science lab operation that permeates the skies further diminishing the quality of living of a
community that continues to is disappear with every development the City embarks upon. It is a
harbinger of things to come that the quiet life of suburban living won’t be achieved living in South San
Francisco. This is not a good sign for the City.
Best,
Mina Richardson,
Resident
127 Cherry Ave
So. San Francisco, Ca 94080