OCII workshop advances Candlestick Point amendments after heated public comment on outreach and housing

Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure staff on July 2 presented a package of proposed amendments meant to "restart Candlestick" and accelerate infrastructure and housing at the Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment sites, triggering a long public comment period centered on outreach, displacement fears and enforcement of community benefits.

At a workshop before the OCII commission, staff and the 5Point development team asked commissioners for feedback on six main changes: extend the redevelopment plan time limits for public financing, transfer 2,000,000 square feet of commercial capacity from the Hunters Point Shipyard to Candlestick Center, allow more flexible commercial and mixed uses at the stadium‑site “pie,” adopt a phased parking approach for research-and-development space (initially 2 spaces per 1,000 square feet for the first 1,700,000 sq ft, with a study to consider reductions to about 1.3 later), increase Candlestick Center height limits (from about 120 feet to as much as 180 feet in parts of the center), and streamline some design‑review steps while preserving public and commission review of major phases.

Katarina Kidd, 5Point’s director of planning, and Lila Hussain, senior project manager for Candlestick, described the history of the long‑delayed redevelopment, noting that the project was first approved in 2010 and that a series of setbacks (Navy land‑transfer delays and other issues) prompted…