S.F. Church Fails to Get Landmark Status
<i> From a Times Staff Writer</i>
SAN FRANCISCO —
A two-year fight to designate a Korean United Methodist Church a San Francisco landmark ended Monday when the Board of Supervisors failed to override a mayoral veto of the designation.
The board mustered only five of the eight votes needed to override Mayor Frank Jordan’s veto of an ordinance giving the church landmark status.
The church’s pastor wants to close the church and move to a larger building, but many Korean-Americans fought to save it as a symbol of their ethnic heritage.
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