San Francisco

Marina Community Association

Dear MCA Members,

You have probably been aware of proposed plans for the Presidio Trust to build a contemporary art museum, a lodge, and an extension to the existing cinema around the Main Post of the Presidio. The MCA has attempted to keep you informed of public meetings related to these plans.

The proposed plan are described in three documents that were prepared by the Presidio Trust in late February 2009, totaling 350 pages. Those documents are:

• Supplemental to Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
• Revised Draft Main Post Update
• Revised Draft Finding of Effect

Members of the MCA have spent hundreds of hours analyzing those documents and attending meetings with the Presidio Trust, the National Park Service, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the State Historic Preservation Office and the departments of the City of San Francisco.

The deadline for officially submitting public comments on the above documents was June 1. The MCA has submitted three separate documents containing comments.

• Comments related to the Draft Finding of Effect to the National Historic Landmark District under the National Preservation Act.
• Comments related to the Integrity of the Public Review Process and Compliance with several Federal Laws.
• Comments related to the Environmental Impacts under the National Environmental Policy Act.

In addition the MCA is a member organization of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Presidio Neighborhood Representative Work Group (PNRWG) and the Neighborhood Association of Presidio Planning (NAPP). We worked with both those organizations to submit further comments.

We have posted all five documents to our web site and the links are listed to the right. Please let us know if you have any questions.