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Planning staff previews Transit Center District plan updates, calls for upzoning, streetscape and transit investments
Summary
Staff summarized the Transit Center District draft plan (November 2009), proposing concentration of office and public realm investments around the Transbay Transit Center, up to ~9 million sq ft of additional development (roughly two‑thirds office), sidewalk widening, reduced nonresidential parking, new impact fees and potential Mello‑Roos funding; draft EIR planned for September with hearings in October.
Planning department staff provided an extensive briefing of the Transit Center District Plan and its rationale, with proposed land‑use, urban design, transportation and financing measures intended to capitalize on the Transbay Transit Center investment.
Staff said the plan focuses growth in the southern financial district around the transit center and proposes selective height and density increases on a small number of opportunity sites (illustrative height cone with a Transit Tower at Mission and First Streets), a removal of the existing FAR cap in favor of height/bulk controls, and a strategy to concentrate about 9,000,000 square feet of additional development over…
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