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Committee refers Balboa Reservoir rezoning and General Plan changes after hours of debate
Summary
After hours of testimony, the committee forwarded General Plan and Special Use District amendments for the Balboa Reservoir project to the full Board without recommendation. The project proposes roughly 1,100 homes on 17 acres (50% on‑site affordability), childcare, parkland and educator housing; public commenters were split over sale of public land to a private developer versus 100% publicly owned affordable housing.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Land Use & Transportation Committee spent several hours on July 27 reviewing the Balboa Reservoir package: General Plan amendments and a Special Use District to allow a mixed-income, transit-oriented project on approximately 17 acres of SFPUC-owned land adjacent to City College and the Balboa Park BART station.
Project summary: The package would permit about 1,100 homes (roughly 1.3 million gross square feet of residential), including 550 deed-restricted affordable units (50% of the total) with a range of AMI levels (30–120% AMI) and a 150-unit educator-housing set-aside with first preference for City College employees and affiliates. Design elements include a roughly two-acre principal park, a 100-seat childcare center with subsidized slots for low-income families, extensive…
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