With LGBTQ landmark backlog, SF looks to fund planning position
Six years ago a summer intern working with the San Francisco Planning Department's historic preservation staff had earmarked seven local properties worthy of being designated city landmarks due to their significance to LGBTQ history.
The sites had been highlighted in the citywide LGBTQ historic context statement released in 2015.Yet, to this day, not a single one has been landmarked nor are there any immediate plans to do so.
The septet is among dozens of properties of historical importance for various reasons in the city waiting to be landmarked.To help address the backlog the planning department is seeking funding in its next two fiscal year budgets, which annually begin on July 1, to hire on additional staff to work on local and federal landmark designations for LGBTQ+ and other underrepresented communities.
If approved, however, it could take until 2023 to finalize the hiring for the position."It is more than we could have asked for.
