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Board approves Potrero Yard modernization as supervisors push for housing funding
Summary
After days of committee debate and a lengthy full-board exchange, supervisors adopted a modernization agreement for the Potrero bus yard March 24 and passed an amendment urging the mayor’s housing office to identify funding and sites to make up lost affordable units.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 24 approved a contract and project agreement to modernize the Potrero (Petroro) bus storage and maintenance yard, voting to adopt the resolution as amended after contentious debate over a related loss of affordable housing that had been envisioned for the site.
Supervisor Connie Chan introduced nonbinding amendments urging the mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) to identify funding to construct infrastructure that would enable future housing development tied to the modernization project and asking SFMTA to identify additional sites to help deliver the 465 affordable units referenced in entitlement legislation from 2024. "The board of supervisors urges MOHCD to identify funding sources to…
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