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Planning staff outlines Park Merced redevelopment plan, tenant protections and multi‑tier transit strategy
Summary
Planning staff and agencies detailed the Park Merced draft development agreement: guaranteed one‑for‑one replacement of rent‑controlled units, a tenant relocation sequencing and notice plan, and a multi‑tier transportation program with possible Muni realignments, shuttles and intersection upgrades tied to construction triggers.
Planning department staff and city agencies presented a detailed overview of the Park Merced redevelopment proposal and the draft development agreement at the Planning Commission’s Dec. 16 hearing. The package, as explained by Planning’s Joshua Switzky and the mayor’s office of housing, ties housing replacement, affordable housing commitments and a transportation phasing program to construction triggers in an agreement intended to run for decades.
The commission heard that every existing unit that is demolished would be replaced and that no demolition may occur until a corresponding replacement building has been completed and received its certificate of occupancy. Michael Yarny of the mayor’s office said the project defines an “existing tenant” as someone who has received initial notice and remains in place when a replacement building receives its certificate of…
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