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Petição dirigida a: PG&E, SF Planning Department
The project on 3637-3657 Sacramento Street was approved by the San Francisco Planning and the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection based on the understanding that a subsurface transformer would be installed. This condition was fundamental to the approved design, which was also supported through the public review process and endorsed by both the City and the surrounding neighborhood at the time of approval.
Since then, PG&E has denied the project sponsor's subsurface transformer request. The only alternative is to place the transformer at street level as part of the building, with a requirement for direct exterior access. This would result in approximately 14’ of continuous street frontage being dedicated to utility infrastructure.
This requirement has a significant and detrimental impact on the project and the surrounding neighborhood. The total street frontage is 110’, of which approximately 60% is already allocated to active retail uses. Introducing a street-level transformer would consume an additional ~20% of the frontage, replacing active, engaging uses with a blank, inactive façade.
We ask for your support in signing this petition to urge PG&E to reconsider and approve the subsurface transformer.
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Such a condition would undermine the pedestrian experience, diminish the vitality of the retail corridor, and conflict with the City’s urban design goals for active ground-floor frontages. Beyond aesthetics, it effectively removes usable space that would otherwise contribute to the neighborhood’s economic and social activity. Additionally, accommodating this change would require a substantial redesign of the building envelope, and would be in direct conflict of what was previously approved by Planning.
Construction is well underway, with work now reaching the third floor of the structure. Revising the ground floor to accommodate a transformer room would not only have a huge cost impact but also trigger a cascade of structural redesigns and changes, unraveling progress that has already been carefully put in place, which will also delay the project completion by months.
Allowing above-grade utility infrastructure in a highly regarded neighborhood such as Sacramento Street would be inconsistent with its long-standing character and design standards, and could set an undesirable precedent for other similarly sensitive streetscapes across the City.
Muito obrigado pelo seu apoio, Sacramento Locust Associates, San Francisco
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Detalhes da petição
Petição iniciada:
28/04/2026
Fim da coleta:
04/07/2026
Região:
São Francisco
Categoria:
Construção
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I’m signing because this feels like exactly the kind of late-stage infrastructure decision that can quietly damage the street-level character of a neighborhood. Sacramento Street works because it is walkable, active, and human-scaled. Replacing a meaningful portion of the frontage with utility infrastructure would not just affect this one project; it would weaken the retail experience and set a poor precedent for other neighborhood corridors.
The project appears to have been reviewed and approved with the understanding that the transformer would be placed underground, and construction is already well underway. At this point, forcing a major redesign seems unnecessarily disruptive, costly, and inconsistent with the public-facing design that neighbors and the City originally evaluated.
I support asking PG&E to reconsider and work with the project team on a solution that preserves the approved ground-floor retail frontage and the pedestrian experience on Sacramento Street.