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Press release from the Presidio Historical Association.  This document details mounting opposition to the Presidio Trust’s plans for a modernistic 100,000 square foot contemporary art museum to be located on the Presidio’s Main Post.

– Doug Kern

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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?

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The Presidio Trust is amending their Management Plan (PTMP) with a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS).  The document will consider proposed project alternatives on the Presidio Main Post, including the Presidio Museum and the Presidio Lodge.  The SEIS schedule looks to wrap up the decision-making process in about six months. The timeline below is an estimate as of March 2008 and subject to change. source: Presidio Trust

June 2008 — Trust releases draft SEIS

June 2008 — 45-day public review process begins

July 2008 — Review process ends

August 2008 — Trust prepares final SEIS

September 2008 — Trust releases final SEIS

October 2008 — Trust prepares Record of Decision (ROD)

October 2008 — ROD signed 

– Doug Kern

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