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Supervisors move to accept remnant OCII parcels; ask DPW to estimate costs
Summary
The Land Use & Transportation Committee approved amendments to a resolution transferring 11 remnant redevelopment parcels from the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) to the City and County of San Francisco, substituting grant-deed language and asking Public Works for a cost estimate for bringing sidewalks/streets up to city standards before final acceptance.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on Feb. 24 recommended that the Board of Supervisors accept 11 parcels from the successor redevelopment agency, the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII), and place them under the jurisdiction of Public Works, the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD), and Recreation and Parks.
Chair Aaron Peskin said the city should receive the parcels by grant deed rather than quitclaim, saying a grant deed creates a stronger representation from OCII about the title and known encumbrances. Andreiko Penick, director of real estate, described the package of properties and the rationale for transferring them under the city’s long-range property management plan.
Two properties were highlighted for MOHCD: the supermarket commonly called Foodsco at 345 Williams Avenue — a 92,209-square-foot lot with a 29,000-square-foot supermarket that the former redevelopment agency acquired with $4,000,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds — and a health clinic/garage air-rights parcel at Seventh Street (part of the Westbrook Plaza project). Penick said MOHCD already owns the affordable-housing portion of that project and that transferring the remaining air-rights pieces to MOHCD “made sense.”
The item also includes several remnant streets and sidewalk parcels in Yerba Buena that OCII technically owned but the public has treated as public right-of-way. Penick said the proposed transfers would regularize those parcels as city property so Public Works can formally merge them into the right-of-way.
Supervisors pressed staff about the fiscal risk of accepting parcels that may not meet current engineering standards. Penick explained the two-step process: the city would first accept title from OCII and later Public Works would inspect and formally incorporate the parcels into the right-of-way; only after incorporation would any Community Benefits District (CBD) assessment — estimated at $4,000 annually on one parcel — be removed. OCII staff said dissolution law limits their authority to spend funds to correct conditions on completed assets and that the city would assume responsibility for any post-transfer obligations.
Because Public Works must determine whether sidewalks and streets meet city specifications, Chair Peskin asked staff to get an estimate from Public Works within a week. The committee agreed, without objection, to amend the documents to substitute “grant deed” for “quitclaim deed” and forward the item to the full Board with the recommendation pending Public Works’ cost and acceptance assessment.
Next steps: the full Board will receive the amended resolution; staff will return Public Works’ estimate of the cost and technical steps required to formally accept the right-of-way parcels.
