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Article: The Presidio Trust released a draft.(Brief Article)
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- California Planning & Development Report
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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The Presidio Trust released a draft implementation plan and associated environmental impact statement for the 1,450-acre San Francisco park in late July. The plan focuses new development in the former Army base's northeast corner, near the Palace of Fine Arts and recently restored Crissy Field.
The plan limits total structural space to 5.6 million square feet. The Presidio now has about 5 million square feet of structures; some existing buildings will be razed and others remodeled (see CP&DR Local Watch, March 2001).
Environmentalists, civic leaders and neighborhood representatives quickly criticized the plan as one that would generate too ...