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Developers, city staff outline 10,500-unit Hunters Point/Candlestick plan; residents and advocates warn of contamination risks
Summary
City staff and the redevelopment team presented a plan to redevelop Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point with 10,500 homes (32% below-market-rate), large parks and job commitments; public commenters and an environmental advocate urged caution about Superfund contamination, stormwater reuse and community benefits ahead of a June hearing.
San Francisco officials and redevelopment staff presented the conceptual framework for Phase 2 of the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point redevelopment, describing a 700-acre mixed-use plan that calls for up to 10,500 housing units, parks, and job-generation measures.
Tiffany Bohe of the mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development said the plan would deliver ‘‘hundreds of acres of open space, 10,500 new housing units, with 32% of those units set aside at below-market rates,’’ and highlighted a financing approach that relies on tax increment, Mello-Roos special taxes and private capital rather than the city general fund.
The presentation said the project includes a phased rebuild of the Alice Griffith public-housing site with ‘‘no public displacement’’ in…
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