San Francisco School Relocation (250 Valencia Street)

San Francisco School Relocation (250 Valencia Street)

The 44,800-square-foot project site is on Valencia Street between Duboce Avenue and 14th Street in the Mission District. Brosnan Street borders the project site on the south, while Clinton Park forms the northern site boundary. The project sponsor, the San Francisco Friends School, proposes to renovate the former Levi Strauss & Company factory building at 250 Valencia Street to accommodate growth and relocation of the Friends School from its current location in the Castro District of San Francisco. The school proposes to retain most exterior features of the historic Levi's building, renovate the interior for academic and related uses, and convert an existing outdoor parking area and brick plaza to children's play space. Proposed exterior alterations include: removal of one of our stair towers added in a 1968-1970 renovation (at the northwest, or right rear corner of the building) and addition of an exterior stair; removal of the decorative trellis above the porch along the main (east) façade and its decorative guardrail along the porch (both added in the 1960s renovation); addition of a new access door in the Brosnan Street ground-floor façade and replacement of the existing roll-up garage door; removal of a small mechanical building abutting the rear (west) façade; raising the roof along a portion of the rear (west façade to accommodate construction of a gymnasium and theater on the building's third floor. On the interior, the project would include: creation of six classrooms and other children's and support space on the ground floor; 10 classrooms, language and science labs, a library, and a cafeteria/kitchen and Quaker meeting room on the second floor; and six classrooms, the upper level of the library, art and music rooms, offices, and a planned theater and gymnasium on the third floor. The maple flooring and exposed ceiling joints would be retained on the second floor. The Friends School plans to relocate to the site in time for the 2008-09 school year.

San Francisco

San Francisco

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Department of Water Resources, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

Educational (K-8 school (private) with up to 460 students)

Building Permit

Air Quality, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Land Use/Planning, Noise