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City officials and developers lay out combined Candlestick Point–Hunters Point plan with parks, housing and transit

San Francisco City Planning Commission · January 10, 2008
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City staff and development partners presented a combined land‑plan for Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard that prioritizes hundreds of acres of new parkland, thousands of housing units including affordable housing, and major transit upgrades; presentation included a possible stadium site and a timeline tied to an anticipated voter measure and draft EIR.

Michael Cohen, director at the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, told the Planning Commission the city is advancing a combined Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard land plan aimed at creating jobs, parks and significant affordable housing in Southeast San Francisco. The presentation framed the site — roughly seven hundred and seventy acres of waterfront land and former shipyard — as a once‑in‑a‑generation opportunity to deliver public benefits without displacing existing residents.

Cohen said the conceptual framework adopted last spring set three core objectives: jobs and economic development, hundreds of acres of publicly accessible parks, and large amounts of housing, including a targeted replacement of the aging Alice Griffith public housing “on a 1‑for‑1 basis” and…

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