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City staff outline Southern Bayfront negotiating framework for waterfront growth
Summary
Long‑range planning and OEWD staff presented a negotiating framework for major Southern Bayfront projects — including Hunters Point, Pier 70 and Mission Rock — that aims to capture affordable housing, transit and open‑space benefits from five large waterfront master plans.
Planning and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development presented the Southern Bayfront Strategy at the commission, describing coordination across multiple major master plans poised to transform San Francisco’s southeast waterfront. Speakers said the district could yield at least 20,000 new housing units (about 33% affordable in staff projections), roughly 35,000 new jobs and approximately 520 acres of new or renovated open space that would materially change the city’s waterfront over the next decades.
Ken Wyche and Lee Lutenski (OEWD/Long Range Planning) described a negotiating framework intended to treat the portfolio of projects holistically rather than as piecemeal deals. The approach would prioritize direct project investments in affordable housing, coordinated transportation improvements, BlueGreenway open‑space connectivity, sea‑level rise adaptation and workforce development commitments tied to construction jobs. Lutenski said the team aims to “achieve 33% affordability from all of the new housing units created” and push for a neighborhood preference program for a share of units.
Speakers outlined tools to capture value across projects, including impact fees, infrastructure financing districts (IFDs) and Mello‑Roos‑style mechanisms that could pre‑finance infrastructure and potentially contribute to long‑term sea‑level rise adaptation funds. Staff also stressed the need for early interagency coordination with the Port, OCII, Rec and Park, SFMTA and others to avoid duplicated investments and optimize public benefits across adjacent projects.
Commissioners asked about agency overlap, community benefits in negotiated development agreements, and transportation sequencing to prevent a lag between new housing and needed transit. Panelists said they were starting developer negotiations to align obligations and explore financing options but cautioned that packages would evolve as projects proceed through entitlements.
