Presidio Opposition to Over Development on the Main Post
Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio

The next Presidio Trust Meeting meets as follows:

Main Post Planning Workshop: Transportation
Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.
Golden Gate Club, 135 Fisher Loop

In response to public requests for a different meeting format, the Presidio
Trust will replace the April 16 meeting with a meeting on April 22 that
will provide an overview of the transportation issues being analyzed
through the Main Post planning process. Staff will be on hand to answer
questions about transportation issues.

There will be NO public meeting on Thursday, April 16.

Presidio Trust Board Meeting
April 7 at 6:30pm
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

If possible, please attend the Presidio Trust Public Board Meeting on April 7.  If you cannot, please write/email The Presidio Trust and Congresswomen Nancy Pelosi. 

Nancy Pelosi, who influences appointments of new Trustees and shapes legislation related to the Presidio, and the Trustees must understand that a large majority of the public is against these plans.

Why Latest Plans Still Not Right

The original, large, white, box-shaped Fisher Museum design located at the top of the parade ground that was approved by the Trust board members in early 2008, has been abandoned because it jeopardized the National Historic District Landmark status.

The new designs are flawed because of the following:

Still attracting millions of new visitors WITHOUT adequate public transportation

Still no proven solution for parking hundreds of cars, tour buses and delivery trucks

Still no acknowledgment that Presidio's roadways can not handle a huge increase in traffic -- the park is already very congested on any given weekend

Still demanding a location that dominates the historic Main Post and Parade Ground

Still jeopardizing the National Historic District Landmark status of the Presidio

Still requiring the demolition of safe, family-friendly recreation - the bowling alley

Still requiring the demolition of healthy, public recreation - the tennis courts

Also.

Still not listening the City's offer to locate the museum downtown near public transportation and other cultural institutions

Still providing confusing and lengthy process with too much paper for the public to digest

Still lacking cogent, intelligible need for the 200,000 sq' of construction - there isn't any need expressed in the documents

Still no acknowledgment of cumulative effects of the museum, hotel and theatre changes plus the 400,000 people a year expected to visit the Disney Museum that is already being built on the Main Post

PHRA Introduction to Development of the Presidio's Main Post

PHRA Letters to Presidio Trust

Neighborhood Associations for Presidio Planning

Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhood (CSFN) Resolution: represents 40 associations throughout San Francisco, opposing the Presidio Trust's plans for building construction on the Main Post.

National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP): letter opposing the currently proposed development on the Presidio Main Post based on likely loss of the Presidio's  National Landmark Status.

National Park Service/GGNRA letter to Presidio Trust

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