Redevelopment commission approves plan amendments to implement Prop O for Hunters Point and Candlestick

The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Commission voted to transmit plan amendments to the Board of Supervisors to implement Proposition O and adopted related California Environmental Quality Act findings on April 4, 2017. The unanimous vote among present members — Commissioners Rosales and Singh and Chair Mondahar — followed a staff presentation and extensive public comment urging the Commission to move the project forward.

Tamsyn Drew, senior project manager for the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point project, told the commission the amendments are administrative and "narrow," designed only to conform redevelopment plans to the voter-approved Proposition O by exempting Candlestick Point and phase 2 of Hunters Point Shipyard from the annual office-square-foot limitation established by Proposition M. She said the amendments do not change the total amount of development the redevelopment plans allow: "The redevelopment plan established a high-level threshold of up to about 5,000,000 square feet of research and…