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Supervisor presses mayor for commitment to issue RFQ for Parcel K affordable housing; mayor declines immediate pledge
Summary
Supervisor Dean Preston on Tuesday asked Mayor London Breed to commit to issuing a request for qualifications this year for Parcel K at Hayes and Octavia, a city-owned site long designated for 100% affordable housing; the mayor declined to make an immediate commitment and said she would follow up with departments.
Supervisor Dean Preston used Tuesdays mayoral question time to press Mayor London Breed on an affordable housing site in Hayes Valley known as Parcel K (the proxy site at Hayes and Octavia). Preston said the site was transferred from the state to the city in February 2003 for the explicit purpose of developing 100% affordable housing and that the parcel can accommodate roughly 100 homes for low-income San Franciscans.
Preston said the mayors Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) published a timeline in March that committed to issuing a request for qualifications (RFQ) by August, but no RFQ was issued. He asked the mayor to commit to issuing the RFQ by the end of this calendar year.
Mayor Breed said she did not have the facts on hand to confirm the RFQ timeline or commitments by MOHCD and declined to make an on-the-spot commitment, saying she would follow up with departments to get the facts. The mayor noted broader housing policy work underway across the city and urged the board to focus on policy changes needed to hit the housing element goals.
Public commenters from Hayes Valley and neighborhood groups later urged the mayor and the board to accelerate development on Parcel K and other vacant freeway parcels, pointing out that the site has been set aside for affordable housing for two decades and could yield nearly 100 homes.
Why it matters: Parcel K is a city-owned site long designated for affordable housing. Supervisors and neighbors said the city must move faster to meet ambitious housing-element goals and to make use of scarce publicly owned development parcels.
What remains unclear: The mayors office did not confirm whether MOHCD had formally promised an RFQ by August or why the timeline changed; no new date was set during the meeting.
Next steps: Supervisor Preston and neighborhood advocates said they will continue to press the mayors office for a firm development timeline and may request a hearing or follow-up report from MOHCD.
