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Board approves successor-agency lease enabling Bayview senior housing and community center at 1751 Carroll Avenue
Summary
After a public hearing, the Board approved a ground lease enabling a 55-year lease (initial term) for development of affordable senior housing and a community senior center at 1751 Carroll Avenue in the Bayview; the project will include units for public housing residents and transfer to the Mayor’s Office of Housing upon completion.
The Board of Supervisors held a public hearing and approved a resolution authorizing the successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency to execute a ground lease at 1751 Carroll Avenue with Carroll Avenue Senior Homes for development of senior affordable housing and a community senior center in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
Theresa Yonge, director of housing development at the Mayor’s Office of Housing, told the board the project envisions 120 units of affordable senior housing, a ground-floor community senior center and an extended lease term: an initial 55-year ground lease with an additional term for a total of 99 years upon extension. Yonge said the project will make 90 units available to residents of the Alice Griffith public housing redevelopment as part of that revitalization.
Yonge explained the hearing was required because the former redevelopment agency had used tax-increment funds to acquire the site; under California Health and Safety Code section 33433 the legislative body must authorize dispositions of property acquired with tax-increment funds.
Public comment included tenant advocates and neighborhood residents who urged attention to security, street lighting, services for seniors and the project's local benefits. "This is a good opportunity to build more housing for us all," said a tenant speaker who identified himself as a tenant advocate and community organizer, supporting affordable housing development for older residents.
The board voted 11–0 to adopt the resolution authorizing the lease. Yonge said that, once the project is complete, the ground lease will transfer to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, which will return to the Board for authorization of that transfer.
The approval advances a long-planned Bayview housing project that the successor agency and the Mayor’s Office say is intended to serve very low-income seniors and to coordinate with ongoing public-housing revitalization efforts.
