Friends of the Landmark Filbert Cottages v. City and County of San Francisco
Nestled at the foot of San Francisco’s Russian Hill are a group of residential structures known as the Filbert Street Cottages. The new owners of the cottages proposed a substantial “rehabilitation and expansion.†The City and County of San Francisco determined that the proposed project was exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act[1] and issued necessary permits and approvals for the project to proceed. Neighbors opposed to the project tried to prosecute administrative appeals, but were repeatedly told that every attempt to appeal the exemption decision was untimely, and the attempt at appealing the issuance of the permits was prohibited by the San Francisco Charter. The neighbors’ petition for a writ of mandate was denied on several grounds, one of which was that the petition was untimely according to the applicable statute of limitations specified by CEQA. We agree and affirm.
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