45 Days to Comment on the Presidio’s Future?
The Presidio Trust is proposing a 45-day comment period on the soon-to-be-released Main Post SEIS.
45 days. Let’s see. The document will propose multiple, high-profile, high-dollar-value mega-projects with cumulatively significant impacts in the culturally and historically sensitive heart of the Presidio. The projects include a 100,000 sq. ft. controversial museum, a Presidio lodge, other construction or demolition, parking and circulation, and the El Presidio site. The comment period begins (and ends) during the summer vacation period (considerate?), and lasts all of 45 days. That’s supposed to be an appropriate amount of time to comment on a complex, radically new plan for the Main Post and the future of the Presidio?
Reasonable? Does it pass the smell test? Your thoughts?
The 45 day public comment period on something as complex as the pending new development of hundeds of thousands of square feet in the heart of the National Historic Landmark District strikes me as “typical” of the Trust’s inability to interact with the public in an open and inclusive way. I consider the Presidio OUR National Park but the Trust behaves as if the Presidio is THEIR exclusive National Corporation Business Park. If anyone at the Trust is reading this, my advice would be to take a very hard look at your PR department and evaluate how (easily) you could change your stance with the public from combative to collaborative. (Hint – install as a permanent and meaningful fixture a replica of the PHSH Community Work Group)
I think the PR department basically runs the Trust, it’s almost like they don’t let any other staff in public without an escort.
They will not change on their own.
Where is the future?