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Board approves Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island plan and related ordinances after appeal hearings
Summary
After a lengthy, contested appeal hearing the Board of Supervisors certified the final EIR for the Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island redevelopment plan and approved a broad package of implementing ordinances and a development agreement, clearing the way for a phased, multi‑decade redevelopment of the former naval base.
After a multi‑hour appeal hearing and extensive public comment, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on June 7 certified the final environmental impact report for the Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island redevelopment area plan and approved a package of related ordinances and resolutions — including zoning map amendments, a development agreement and subdivision code changes — moving forward a long‑planned island redevelopment.
The board heard appellants raise legal and CEQA concerns including project description changes (shift from redevelopment financing to infrastructure financing districts), the adequacy of project‑level analysis versus programmatic review, remediation and toxic‑materials questions, potential impacts to Coast Guard vessel‑traffic systems, and historic resource treatment (including Building 1 and Building 3). Planning staff, the city attorney and the project sponsor responded that the EIR contained detailed project‑level analysis, that revisions to financing and governance did not create new or substantially greater impacts requiring recirculation, and that site remediation and historic resource measures are incorporated in mitigation and oversight plans.
After extensive public testimony from dozens of residents, neighborhood groups, labor unions and service providers in favor and opponents urging recirculation, the board voted to adopt the EIR certification and approved implementing ordinances and resolutions as amended. The board also approved a set of amendments addressing financing guarantees, additional conditions on the disposition and development agreement and enhancements to the transportation mitigation commitments.
The package approved addresses land use and design controls, establishes a Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Special Use District and a height and bulk district, clarifies subdivision review procedures, adopts the Treasure Island Transportation Implementation Plan and includes a development agreement specifying public benefits, affordable‑housing commitments (adjusted to reflect an IFD financing scenario) and local‑hire commitments. Several appellants' procedural objections were considered and rejected by the Planning Department and the Board’s legal advisers; the board denied the appeal and moved the package forward.
What happens next: the approvals establish a regulatory and contractual framework for phased build‑out of the islands, including required mitigation, oversight by state and federal agencies for remediation and subsequent project‑level reviews for specific buildings and infrastructure.
