CALA Foods Market Story

Sunday, 05 July 2009

Article Index CALA Foods Market Story Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 2 of 5 Traffic Impacts From the first public meeting held in the neighborhood on the project in April, 2006 residents raise questions and concerns about car traffic generated by the development, its impact on MUNI, neighborhood parking, pedestrians entering Golden Gate Park, especially children and the elderly and truck deliveries to the grocery store. The developer never publically considered reducing the parking. Instead, in a rather curious non-reply, reply stressed that neighborhood residents would walk to the store, begging the question as to why he insisted on such a large off street garage. When the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) were finally published the objective basis of these concerns were revealed. The project would: create some 7,073 new car trips to and from the site each day (the project was proposed to be open 24 hours a day, DEIR , p.72); have some 27 truck deliveries each day, requiring an additional surface truck dock on Stanyan street taking up a full lane in front of the store (DEIR, p. 81); produce 717 pounds a day of air pollutants, with the CO portion exceeding the "sufficient" threshold ; these pollutants would be vented into the backyard of existing residents on Page street (DEIR, p. 97); there would be a "shortfall" of off street parking spaces in meeting the auto demand of some 30 spaces each day and 60 spaces on the weekend resulting in store customers competing with residents for the existing street parking spaces (DEIR, p. 79). Yet even these figures seemed to underestimate the true impacts since the traffic study done by the developer was done in the winter, did not include an estimate of Golden Gate Park Sunday parking closures, the various large events for the eastern portion of the park nor the opening of the new natural science museum. Indeed, both resident and Planning Commissioners so critics the study that the developer was required to do one in the summer months that more accurately addressed pediatrician uses in the area. The developer took some seven months to reply to these comments, stopping consideration of the application until the response was made. Added to the seven months the developer took between the EIR notice and the publication of the draft EIR nearly an entire year was taken by the developer to prepare for and complete the EIR process, a delay solely his. << Prev - Next >>

 

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