Supervisors approve Mission Rock package and shelter contracting rule; table commercial-space childcare tax initiative

On Feb. 27, 2018, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a bundle of ordinances and resolutions that included four measures for the Mission Rock project, an emergency procurement pathway for shelter crisis sites and several property leases, settlements and grants; the board also agreed to table a separate local ballot initiative on early childhood care after its sponsors qualified it for the June 5 ballot.

The Mission Rock package (items 12–15 on the agenda) comprised four ordinances: amendments to the Mission Bay South Redevelopment Plan; establishment of Project Area 1 (Mission Rock) and subproject areas Capital I-1 through Capital I-13 for the Port of San Francisco's Infrastructure Financing District No. 2; approval of a development agreement between the city and Seawall Lot 337 Associates for a proposed mixed-use project on Seawall Lot 337 east of Third Street; and zoning amendments to create the Mission Rock Special Use District and associated CEQA findings. The measures were called together, considered routine by the board, and approved unanimously on the same call.

The board also adopted an ordinance (item 16) that authorizes the Department of Public Works, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and the Department of Public Health to enter into contracts related to identified shelter crisis sites without following certain administrative-code and environment-code competitive-bidding requirements. The ordinance was finally passed unanimously after…