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Budget committee advances SFMTA’s Potrero (Cherry) Yard modernization ordinance with procurement waivers
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee voted to recommend an ordinance enabling a joint-development delivery for the Potrero (Cherry) Yard modernization — intended to expand bus capacity, accommodate battery-electric buses, and include housing (minimum 50% affordable) — provided SFMTA and the Mayor’s Office of Housing return with a term sheet and protections for prevailing wages and local hiring.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Finance Committee on March 3 recommended an ordinance that would exempt parts of Administrative Code Chapters 6, 14B and 21 to allow a joint-development, design-build-finance delivery for the Potrero (Cherry) Yard modernization.
SFMTA co-project manager Rafe Rabelais told the committee the project would rebuild the roughly 100-year-old Potrero yard as a three-level bus facility to expand capacity by about 50 percent, accommodate state-mandated battery-electric buses and modernize bus bays and operations. Rabelais said the project is part of SFMTA’s facilities program begun in 2017 and that the agency expects to complete the yard rebuild by 2026.
The proposed ordinance would permit the city to select a developer using a best-value selection…
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