Community Rallies Around Alternative for 3400 Cesar Chavez

On July 9th, advocates held a rally in front of the building site to call attention to the July 17th meeting of the Board of Supervisors. At that meeting, the Board will consider MAC’s appeal of the environmental impact document at the building site. If the appeal fails, Seven Hills Properties, who owns the site, can go ahead with their development. If the appeal succeeds, the project will go back to the Planning Department for review.

Under the alternate plan, BHNC would build 60-70 affordable housing units for families earning less than 60% of San Francisco’s median income – $54,700 for a family of four. The Seven Hills plan contains only nine affordable housing units, that would be sold to households earning 100% of median income.

On the ground floor would be an area for the Day Laborer program, instead of a Walgreens' in the Seven Hills plan. BHNC would buy the land from Seven Hills for what they say is a competitive market rate of about $5.88 million. However, BHNC would need to acquire this funding from the Mayor’s Office of Housing.

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