Neighbors etc. v. City & Cty. of S.F.

BACKGROUND

A. The Project and Parties The Center, a nonprofit organization founded in 1919, has occupied its present location in San Francisco‟s Western Addition neighborhood since 1952. It currently offers job training, after school and teen programs, recreation, counseling on housing and health care, and senior clubs, among other programs, to its ethnically diverse, low and very low-income clientele. The Center proposes to demolish its existing facility, a one-story, 13,745 square foot community service building, and replace it with a 68,206 square foot mixed-use development containing expanded community facilities and a five-story residential building. The new community center would include a 7,506 square foot gymnasium, a child care center, and a state-of-the-art space to support the Center‟s programs for at-risk youth, with sufficient space to expand the Center‟s after-school and teen program from 100 to 150 participants. The housing component will provide 24 affordable studios for low income households, 24 additional studios for low to very low income emancipated foster youth (“transitional aged youth”), and two two-bedroom units for on-site managers. Plaintiffs do not…