In a unanimous decision the court ruled the Environmental Impact Report “inadequately analyzed potential alternatives to Housing Project No. 2 and impacts from noise and displacement.”
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court has blocked a proposed housing project at People’s Park that has drawn protest and controversy, ruling that the project’s Environmental Impact Report was inadequate.
“The EIR failed to justify the decision not to consider alternative locations to the People’s Park project,” the judges wrote. “In addition, it failed to assess potential noise impacts from loud student parties in residential neighborhoods near the campus, a longstanding problem that the EIR improperly dismissed as speculative.”
The proposal includes 1,100 university students and 125 homeless residents within two 12- and six-story dorm buildings — coming full circle since 1969, when the university’s initial desire to build housing on the 2.8-acre site culminated in thousands of protesters, a state of emergency and one death.
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