Hardly anyone opposes low-income senior housing, but there's an appeal anyway - 48 hills

"I happen to know that park very well. It's been closed for years for what the city calls maintenance issues (there's not enough money to keep it up). I know because I would take my kids there when they had colds and were too sick to hang out with the crowds of children at the Bernal Heights Park off Cortland. I knew they would be fine at this empty space with damaged play structures, since nobody else would be around to get their germs."

"The project, sponsored by the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, which builds affordable housing, would create 70 units for low-income seniors at 3333 Mission, where a Big Lots store went out of business. A few homeowners near the area have filed an appeal challenging a technicality in the project that requires a change in the subdivision map. They argue that the project would impact a park on Coleridge Street. Low-income seniors don't drive cars. They don't create congestion or crime."

Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center proposes a 70-unit fully affordable senior housing development at 3333 Mission on a former Big Lots site. A small group of nearby homeowners filed an appeal arguing that a required subdivision map change would impact a long-neglected park on Coleridge Street. The park has been closed for years for maintenance and saw almost no public use when open. The project plan includes rebuilding and improving the park and creating housing for low-income seniors who are unlikely to drive or generate congestion or crime. The Board of Supervisors will hear the appeal on Tuesday, and the project otherwise has broad local support.

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