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Commission initiates Visitation Valley 22Schlage Lock22 plan amendments and development agreement
Summary
After years of redevelopment planning, the commission agreed to initiate general-plan amendments and signaled support for a negotiated development agreement that would increase density, require a Phase 1 grocery store and parks, and deliver 15% inclusionary affordable housing under revised subsidy terms.
The Planning Commission on May 8 voted to initiate general-plan amendments to facilitate the Visitation Valley Schlage Lock redevelopment, advancing a development agreement (DA) that staff and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development negotiated with the project sponsor.
Staff described revisions that raise building heights in many parcels (typical increase to 65 feet in much of the site), reduce maximum retail square footage (from up to 105,000 sf to about 46,700 sf), and reconfigure parks to enable a commercially viable grocery site in Phase 1. The DA ties Phase 1 occupancy and subsequent phases to delivery of public benefits: a full-service grocery (minimum 15,000 sf, up to 28,000 sf) and two parks (0.9 acre Visitation Park and 0.8 acre Leland Greenway). The DA requires stabilization of a historic office building in Phase 1 and full interior rehabilitation when southeastern parcels are developed.
City negotiators said the loss of redevelopment tax-increment funding required lowering the affordable-housing requirement from the earlier 25% plan to a 15% inclusionary requirement, supplemented by fee credits, modest direct subsidies (including $2 million Prop K from the SFCTA and $1.5 million from SFMTA) and in-kind crediting for infrastructure and public benefits. Staff emphasized these adjustments were intended to keep the project financially feasible while preserving community priorities.
Community members and advisory committees who have worked on Schlage Lock for years spoke in favor, calling the DA a way to catalyze remediation, parks, and neighborhood-serving retail. Commissioners asked detailed questions about phasing triggers, grocery enforcement, and coordination with neighboring land uses. The commission voted unanimously to initiate the required plan amendments and to keep the June 5 full project hearing on the calendar for the forthcoming package of zoning/district and DA actions.
Next steps: staff will publish an addendum to the 2008 EIR and transmit SEQA/CEQA findings and revised implementing documents ahead of the June hearing when the full package (general-plan amendments, zoning map and code changes, and DA) is expected back before the commission.
