Board advances Pier 70 special tax districts despite public concerns over coal‑tar contamination

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Jan. 14 advanced multiple resolutions to form Community Facilities Districts (CFDs) to finance infrastructure, shoreline resiliency and arts space at the Pier 70 redevelopment, while members of the public urged the board to investigate extensive contamination tied to past industrial uses.

The board convened as a committee of the whole for two related hearings: one for a Condominium CFD (Pier 70 Condominiums) and another for a CFD covering leased properties. Staff from the Port presented the project scope — a multi‑phase, 35‑acre site in District 10 with an entitlement that anticipates 1,600 to 3,000 residential units at full buildout, commercial space and nine acres of open space — and described financing through developer and port capital to be reimbursed later via special tax revenues and bonds.

The board approved resolutions of formation and resolutions calling a special landowner election for the condominium CFD (items 25 through 27) and for the leased‑properties CFD (items 32 through 34). The two sets of formation proceedings were adopted on votes recorded in the transcript; the items requiring canvass of election results and final bond authorizations were continued to Jan. 28. Public commenters urged the board to account for…