News – San Francisco Sunset Community Alliance

Dear Planning Commissioners,

We welcome friendly and affordable housing that can be beneficial to families of the Sunset District, but we oppose the monstrosity located at 2550 Irving St because

1. Lack of transparency, collusion – In all livelihood, Gordon Mar threw dust in the eyes of Sunset residents by spreading disinformation on social media that his team had done an outreach of a massive survey highlighting the majority of people were supporting the building project from July until November 2020. In fact, this is not the case. All Mid-Sunset residents were all kept in the dark until around 12/28/2020 when the pipeline of building construction on 2550 Irvine street was leaked out to the public fortuitously. It is a dark-room deal between Gordon and TNDC Developer muddling through the project construction in a flurry for their prime interest best known to them. It became apparent that Gordon Mar might use the support of numerous people living outside Sunset on false claims of Sunset household residents.

2. Inappropriate location – the 7-story high density building with 100 units would be oversized for the busy Irving corridor.

3. Parking – the proposed project only provides 11 parking spaces for up to 300 residents. It will further aggregate the severe parking shortage.

4. Inadequate contributions to Sunset residents – Based on TNDC confirmed information, the eligibility of income level for the target renters will be:

90-100 new housing units will be assigned as follow (10% undecided)

20% Extremely Low Income level

50% Very Low Income level

20% Low Income level

The household income from most of the existing essential working rental families on Sunset District are beyond those extremely or very low income levels. Also, only 40% of the units will be prioritized for Sunset residents. We need 100% of the project to be allocated to low/moderate income families in Sunset District because many of us are underhoused.

5. Inadequate contributions to Sunset families – Sunset is 70% families. 100% of this project should be allocated for families and only build 2- to 3-bedroom units.

6. Unfit for the surrounding – This proposed building is 4 times larger than the apartments in the area and is a monstrosity in the Sunset.

7. This monstrosity will block sunlight, cast shadows, root a concrete forest, and impact the dynamics and culture of the community.

8. Congested neighborhood – there is another 135 affordable units on 43/Irving. Together these projects will bring 700+ additional people and their visitors to this neighborhood all at once. In addition, this will lead to traffic overload on two main paths of 19th Ave & 37th Ave.

9. Public transportation – overcrowding will make it harder for seniors, children and families to timely access buses, carpools and bike lanes.

10. No benefits for existing residents – current Sunset residents pay heavy property taxes. The neighboring homes will endure all impacts but receive no incentives.

We welcome affordable housing projects that are well designed for the Sunset families, but this monstrosity will not be a good fit. Please turn this project down.

Protestors rallying in front of 2550 Irving St.

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