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SAVE SANCHEZ ART CENTER & PACIFICA PERFORMANCES CONCERT HALL: PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING, MAY 19

The item on the Planning Commission agenda for this Monday night, May 19, is

2. General Plan Amendments,, Zoning Ordinance  and Associated Land Use and Zoning Map Amendments (see more at the end of this email)

This action will rezone the Sanchez Art Center and Pacifica Performances Concert Hall to make way for multi-family housing. 

 

Please submit a public comment before noon on Monday 

 

To: [email protected]

Subject: Item 2, Planning Commission meeting 5/19/25

 

Please do not approve agenda item #2 unless there is wording added to make it clear that the city intends to preserve the Sanchez Art Center exhibition spaces and artist studios and the Pacifica Performances Mildred Owen Concert Hall performance space on site 23.

 

Include your full name.

 

Feel free to use your own words. This is only a draft. A different draft is at the end of this email

 

Please forward this email to anybody you think would be interested.

 

Thank you

 

If you can attend the meeting at 7 pm in the Council chambers at 2212 Beach Blvd. that would be most effective. You can also participate by zoom at this link 

https://pacifica-gov.zoom.us/j/81156158241

 

2. NEW PUBLIC HEARINGS:

File No. 2025-007 File No. 2025-007 – General Plan Amendments (GPA-108-25), Zoning Ordinance (TA-128-25), and Associated Land Use (GPA-108-25) and Zoning Map Amendments (RZ-216-25)

Implementing Rezoning Required under the 2023-2031 Housing Element. 

Recommended CEQA Action: City Council certification of an environmental impact report (EIR), and adoption of findings of fact, statement of overriding considerations, and mitigation monitoring and reporting program (MMRP).

Recommended Action: Adopt a resolution initiating the Text Amendments to the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance, and General Plan Maps and Zoning Maps Amendments; and recommending certification of the EIR and approval of the text and map amendments to the City Council.

 

Dear Planning Commissioners,

I am writing regarding item 2 which I understand could dismantle the Sanchez Art Center and Pacifica Performances in order to build housing on the site which the City owns. Please understand that these 2 Cultural Gems are a part of what draws not only Pacificans to the venues but many out of town folks and, aside from our open spaces and great surfing etc. are what make this town a fabulous place to live. The City has supported both these venues over the years and I hope will not stop now. I am aware that we need housing. However Pacificans have benefited from the Art Center and The Performing Arts Center for over 30 years and hope to continue to benefit. Please do all you can to keep our cultural heritage intact at this site for current and future citizens to enjoy.

'AFFORDABLE' HOUSING IN ROCKAWAY QUARRY?

news story

MICHIGAN MEGABUILDER MISSION PLANS A THOUSAND HOMES IN ROCKAWAY QUARRY

news story

MANAGED-RETREAT DEBATE SIMMERS IN PACIFICA

news story

HUMPTY DUMPTY: PACIFICA PLANNING COMMISSION DENIES QUARRY INFILL 5-0

Quarry appeal

PACIFICA'S PERFECT PARCEL

Pacifica City Council meetings start with this acknowledgment of the sacredness of the land:

"The City of Pacifica acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We honor the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples for their enduring commitment to Mother Earth. As the Indigenous protectors of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. We affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples."

This means that as caretakers we will not truck in waste dirt, dump it in the quarry, where it washes into the soil, the creek, and the ocean -- and call it RECLAMATION. Right?

(Science Grrl)

PACIFICA'S ROCKAWAY QUARRY IN JEOPARDY (VIDEOS)

Pacifica Planning Commission is considering a reclamation plan to dump imported soil in Rockaway Quarry, 146 truck trips a day for four years. The videos below explain the plan, which is huge in scope and would negatively affect the quarry recreation area, Highway 1 traffic, and Vallemar School. If you live in or visit Pacifica, you need to make your voice heard to the Planning Commission and City Council.

MITCH REID'S ROCKAWAY BLUE/GREEN PARK PROPOSAL (REVISED)

Mitch Reid drew up this plan back in 1997. Now that Pacifica is once again battling the latest assault on Rockaway Quarry might be a good time to revisit Mitch's dream.

COUNTY SUPERVISORS TO MOSS BEACH: DROP DEAD

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has voted 5-0 to approve Midpen's 71-unit housing development in Moss Beach, ironically known as Cypress Point in "honor" of the cypress trees to be sacrificed in constructing the 16-building project.

You can thank the state for passing a new law allowing such developments to bypass normal CEQA planning requirements, and the county for turning a blind eye to Moss Beach residents' concerns about traffic/pedestrian congestion and safety, water use and resources, lack of transportation and employment and services.

Have the Supervisors ever walked the property? Have they ever visited Moss Beach on foot? Have they considered what chaos they would bring down on this peaceful seaside community?

This is an egregious example of YIMBY politicians dumping their problems (failure to act on the county's housing and transportation crises) on a remote hillside open space. So middle class and working class people who enjoy living here in scenic tranquility will now have to endure years of construction traffic, noise, and dust, then confront the new reality:

An already-jammed Highway 1 struggling to absorb hundreds of new cars (multiply 71 units by X number of vehicles per family); a small-town post office, gas station, convenience store, pizzeria, and taqueria struggling to absorb hundreds of new customers (multiply 71 units by X number of family members); a transportation grid with one crosswalk, few sidewalks, no stop signs or traffic lights, no bike lanes, cross-street traffic battling highway-speed traffic, all struggling to absorb hundreds of new drivers and pedestrians (multiply 71 units by X number of newcomers). Not a pretty picture.

https://www.hmbreview.com/news/supervisors-approve-moss-beach-housing-development/article_c318d72a-ebaf-11ee-9efc-d7cb9687b251.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

CYPRESS POINTLESS: BUILD IT AND WE ALL WILL SUFFER

opposition

 

HIDDEN IMPACT OF MIDPEN'S CYPRESS POINT HOUSING PROJECT

Coastside Buzz op-ed

MIDPEN HOUSING PLAN HARMS MOSS BEACH ENVIRONMENT, TRAFFIC, SAFETY

news story

HISTORY OF MYSTERY @ OLD DEVIL'S SLIDE BUNKER

news story

NO ON ROCKAWAY QUARRY RECLAMATION PLAN

COASTAL HOMEOWNERS VS. MANAGED RETREAT

news story

THE REAL DIRT ON ROCKAWAY QUARRY

The Rockaway Quarry reclamation plan calls for 161 truckloads of waste soil A DAY for four YEARS — almost a million tons of dirt deposited in the quarry. Pacifica Planning Commission hearing on Monday, March 6 addresses this matter. Watch the video at the links below to understand the plan and the issues.

 

https://www.screencast.com/t/IZ3Lm3oXX

 

alternative link

 

Peter Loeb

PACIFICA CITY COUNCIL MULLS PARK MALL & LINDA MAR DEVELOPMENTS

Council discusses massive new Linda Mar developments, Monday evening, January 23, including a mobile home park in SamTrans' park-and-ride lot (see all below).

 

QUARRY QUAGMIRE @ PLANNING COMMISSION

Pacifica Planning Commission met Tuesday, January 17. The agenda item for certification and adoption of a Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Rockaway Quarry Reclamation project was rescheduled for a March meeting. I am strongly against this project and have penned an open letter (link below) expressing my objections. (Owen Brizgys)

open letter

MIDCOAST COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Updates on Cypress Point housing project proposal in Moss Beach, Highway 1 traffic, etc.

newsletter

KIMCO PLANS 6-STORY MIXED-USE BUILDING @ WESTLAKE SHOPPING CENTER

news story

Opponent says project will kill small local businesses while helping big national businesses.