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Supervisors advance leases to build SoMa West skate park and dog run on Caltrans parcels
Summary
The Budget & Finance Subcommittee moved forward two 20‑year leases and a park‑code amendment to create a skate park and a dog park on Caltrans property under the Central Freeway; construction is expected to start in July 2013 and open in spring 2014, funded from Octavia Boulevard parcel sales.
Supervisor Jane Kim told the Budget and Finance Subcommittee that the items before the panel are the result of more than a decade of community planning to transform Caltrans parcels under the Central Freeway into two public recreation sites. “Today is really a culmination of over 13 years of organizing work,” she said, urging approval of lease resolutions and a park-code amendment to allow Recreation and Parks to manage the sites.
John Updike, director of the Department of Real Estate, described the lease terms: one 20‑year airspace lease for a skate park with an initial rent of $10,000 per month that increases annually (final year shown at $14,859 per month), and a second 20‑year capitalized lease for the dog park paid upfront ($2,335,343) with a 10‑year…
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