A strong California housing law cleared the path to fast-track the redevelopment of a Safeway store in San Francisco’s low-slung Marina neighborhood into a 25-story housing tower.
Now opponents are pointing to an obscure provision in that very law that they say could give them the ammunition they need to slow down or significantly scale back the 790-unit development.
Opponents to the planned project at the Marina District Safeway contend that it doesn’t qualify for streamlining, and, importantly, an exemption from an often onerous state-mandated environmental review process, based on Assembly Bill 2011, the state law that developer Align Real Estate used to qualify the project for these incentives…