Bay Area food bank move blocked by lawsuit citing 'historic parking lot'

11 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by NavinF

6 Comments

NavinF

15 hours ago

>In the lawsuit, Hickman and Sheehan argue that the warehouse would destroy a portion of “an in-use, historic parking lot” and called the proposed 35-foot tall prefabricated building “historically-offensive.” They said the city violated CEQA laws by not analyzing the project for its impacts on “noise, historic resources, water and quality, impacts to adjacent uses, traffic, and safety.” Hickman has also argued in public testimony that the food bank would be better off at a different location “down the road.”

Also see "Community Input Is Bad, Actually" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/local-gove...

stop50

14 hours ago

What is so historic important at an parking lot?

JumpCrisscross

14 hours ago

It historically didn’t have poor people on it.

simoncion

13 hours ago

Or, more euphemistically: "The unobstructed view [0] and essential components to the neighborhood character that it historically provided."

[0] "View of what?" you might ask. It's irrelevant... what matters is that whatever it is is "spoiled" by the proposed change.

AStonesThrow

14 hours ago

Hey, look at the bright side: parking lots are extremely earthquake-resistant!

user

12 hours ago

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