Supervisors Hear Plan to Close $250M–$390M Eastern Neighborhoods Infrastructure Gap

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Supervisors and city departments reviewed the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan’s infrastructure needs and an estimated funding gap: impact fees may generate roughly $116 million while earlier estimates ranged $250–$390 million; staff outlined projects, grant leverage strategies and options including bonds, VLF increases and other debt instruments.

Chair Malia Cohen convened a hearing to review how the city will fund and implement hundreds of millions in infrastructure improvements identified by the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan. Planning staff told the committee the plan originally estimated $250 million to $390 million in needs over build‑out but that development impact fees alone are now projected to generate about $116 million, leaving a large funding shortfall.

Planning Department staff said impact fees were designed to cover about 30 percent of the identified improvements and to be used to leverage state and federal grants and private in‑kind contributions. Adam Barrett of the Planning Department described the fee formula and the three categories the fees are programmed for — open space, transportation and community facilities — and named priority projects including Seventeenth & Folsom Park, Showplace Square open space and major transportation corridors such as 16th Street…

Supervisors Hear Plan to Close $250M–$390M Eastern Neighborhoods Infrastructure Gap

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