"Just when you thought that SF was absolutely, positively getting rid of that 710-ton some-would-say-eyesore known as Vaillancourt Fountain, a group of preservationists is suing the city to keep the damn thing there. The Embarcadero Plaza's controversial and brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain dates back to 1971, but seemed effectively dead-to-rights last month when the SF Board of Supervisors rejected a last-chance appeal to save the fountain in a 10-1 vote."
"And even before that, the SF Rec and Parks Department declared the fountain hazardous and fenced it off to the public in June, formally requested the fountain's removal in August, and the fountain's technical owners at the SF Arts Commission voted to remove the fountain in early November. Vaillancourt Fountain is not slated to be destroyed. It is slated to be disassembled, packed up and put into storage, and maybe some collector would buy the pieces and restore it."
"The Chronicle reports that fans of the fountain have sued the city of SF over the city's efforts to remove the fountain, in a lawsuit filed Friday in SF Superior Court. The plaintiffs are calling themselves Friends of the Plaza, and they're represented by attorney Susan Brandt-Hawley, who's fresh off unsuccessfully arguing the appeal to save the fountain before the supervisors last month."
Preservationists filed a lawsuit seeking to stop removal of the 1971 Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco. The SF Rec and Parks Department declared the fountain hazardous and fenced it off in June, then formally requested removal in August. The SF Arts Commission voted to remove the fountain in early November, and the Board of Supervisors rejected a final appeal to save it in a 10-1 vote. The city plans to disassemble and store the fountain rather than destroy it. Plaintiffs calling themselves Friends of the Plaza allege the city failed to comply with CEQA and did not consider feasible protective measures.
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