The Sierra Club was forced to file a lawsuit against San Jose. By approving a plan from Boston Properties, Inc. to build a massive glass facade office building—16 stories, 283 feet high, 800 feet long and with three levels of underground parking that egregiously provides no setback buffer between the building and the steep banks of the Guadalupe River and its forest—the City Council embraced a project that does not comply with the General Plan’s mandatory riparian protections, and thus it violates state planning and zoning law.
-Written by Dave Poeschel of the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter.