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SF Supes Reject CEQA Challenge to The Creamery s Move to the Mission, Upsetting Anti-Gentrification Activists
A tech-famous coffeeshop that was the storied birthplace of Airbnb and Stripe, The Creamery, is likely getting to move ahead with its plans to relocate to 14th and Mission streets from its former digs in SoMa. This is despite months of pushback and an environmental-impact appeal by neighborhood activists.
With at least one activist invoking The Slanted Door s arrival on Valencia Street three decades ago considered by some to be an inflection point for Valencia s total gentrification multiple neighborhood groups, business owners, and activists spoke out this week about why allowing The Creamery into the neighborhood was just one more nail in the coffin for the Mission as they know it. But as Mission Local reports, the Board of Supervisors was not convinced that invoking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a common tool of anti-development activists, was not
One of SF’s Biggest Cannabis Dispensaries is Poised to Hit Valencia Street
The Planning Commission gave the green light for a sprawling dispensary with an on-site smoking lounge, over neighborhood concerns that it would be too big and upscale.
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What is currently the Blu Dot furniture shop on Valencia Street between 16th and 17th Streets will not be the Blu Dot furniture shop anymore when its lease expires this coming June. But green may mark that spot instead, as Mission Local reports that last week the SF Planning Commission unanimously approved an authorization for a cannabis dispensary, along with a smoking lounge, at that particular site. At 4,984 square feet, the dispensary would be even larger than the sizable Moe Greens at Ninth and Market. That size was a major point of contention of the highly divided, nearly two-hour public comment session, with one commenter calling the new dispensary “the Macy’s of cannabis, it will be so darned big it will put the other shops