An appellate court has upheld San Francisco’s decision to use streamlined environmental review for a proposed housing project that incorporates an historic library, essentially upholding the city’s use of tiering off of its housing element environmental impact report. The ruling is unpublished and therefore cannot be used as precedent in other cases.

Appellate court says Laguna Beach can't remove inventory without examining each individual historic property under CEQA

The city is proposing a specific plan that would destroy part of the historic project. But the court ruled that it was not required to consider an alternative plan put forth by advocates.