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City Against State in Parking Garage Project

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin blasts plans by the Hasting College of the Law, which will demolish affordable housing units to build a giant parking garage.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on June 13, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-A San Francisco supervisor criticized Hastings College of the Law this week, urging the city attorney to consider filing a lawsuit to stop a large parking garage from going in at a former housing site.

Before Supervisor Aaron Peskin introduced his measure to try to keep the school from building a controversial eight-story garage at Golden Gate Avenue and Larkin Street, two others on the board had already expressed their support.

Peskin called the garage “wrongheaded,” noting that it would encourage driving despite San Francisco’s transit-first policy and does not conform either to the city’s General Plan or its planning codes. An aide to the supervisor also pointed out that the 85 affordable housing units, which were lost when the building was razed after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, would be lost entirely under the Hastings plans.

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