Committee advances sale of unused SFPUC sewer easement at 98 Crown Terrace for $16,000

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee on a routine vote advanced an ordinance that would vacate and sell an unused sewer easement running across 98 Crown Terrace in the Twin Peaks area.

Tony Barto, assistant real estate director at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told the committee the easement was reserved in a 1958 quitclaim deed and was declared surplus by the SFPUC commission at a February hearing. City departments, including the Department of Public Works and the City Attorney’s Office, reviewed the request and concluded the easement is surplus and appropriate to vacate and sell only to the underlying fee owners of the property. The commission recommended a sale price of $16,000 as fair market value.

Barto said that DPW provided required public notices for the summary vacation and that the sale would not signal approval of any future renovation plans; any building or planning approvals would proceed through the city’s planning and building departments.

After brief public comment that raised no opposition to the vacation, Supervisor Scott Wiener moved to forward the ordinance to the full Board with a positive recommendation and the motion passed "without objection." The matter will next appear on the Board of Supervisors’ agenda for final action.

The committee’s action advances a straightforward property-disposition process: declaration of surplus by the utility, departmental notices, and a summary vacation with sale to the fee owner. No additional conditions or appeals were recorded in the committee proceeding.