The University of San Francisco is pleased to announce that on Thursday, June 24, 2010, it entered into an agreement with the University Terrace Association, a neighborhood group representing the adjacent University Terrace neighborhood, which addresses their mutual concerns. The agreement provides a foundation for productive communications in the future, and the University looks forward to continuing work with its neighbors to build on this foundation.
Also on June 24, the University received Planning Commission approval to proceed with development of the Center for Science and Innovation. Specifically, the Commission unanimously upheld the mitigated negative declaration and approved conditional use authorization for the project. Afterwards, members of the Commission praised the University and the Association for their work during the process.
Although work remains to be done to complete the design and final permitting for the project, this is a critical milestone toward revitalizing the center of campus, and creating a state of the art science laboratory facility for teaching, learning and collaboration.
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And for more detailed information, you can find the official city transcript via this sfgov link.
(I suggest searching for item 20; the Center’s hearing is late in that document. I am particularly tickled by the quotation where our contingent is asked to exit more quietly.)
I’m also honored to share the prepared comments offered to the Commission and the assembled by our Provost, Jenny Turpin, those of interim Dean, Marcelo Camperi, and those of Chemistry student Amelia Ray. This type of beautiful simplicity does not always happen when you ask us academic folks to speak in three-minute intervals, so I hope you’ll take a look.
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Please stay tuned for more summer updates. It’s hard to upstage the news presented here today, but next week will be pretty fun.
