OCII approves Candlestick Point amendments; commission splits as community presses for artist roof repairs

The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure voted Sept. 3 to approve eight related amendments to the Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment agreements, clearing the way for phased infrastructure work and new housing construction in Bayview Hunters Point.

The commission approved resolutions 4a–4h — covering CEQA findings, reports to the Board of Supervisors, redevelopment plan amendments, a Fourth Amendment to the disposition and development agreement (DDA), design-for-development changes and a first amendment to a tax-allocation pledge — by a 4–1 vote on each item. Commissioners Aquino, Drew, Lim and Vice Chair Scott voted in favor; Chair Babette Brackett voted no in each case.

OCII Executive Director Thor Kozlovsky and staff presenter Laila Hussain described the amendments as a pragmatic retooling to restart a long-delayed project. Kozlovsky said the Candlestick Point program includes “over 7,200 new homes” and noted the project’s stated affordability target of roughly 32 percent below-market-rate units. Hussain described a phased approach intended to accelerate infrastructure: a near-term phase with roughly 675 new homes and about 1.2–1.7 million square feet of commercial space in the innovation district (she said about 41 percent of that commercial space would be offered at below-market rates); OCII staff also said the first two phases include about…