The United States Navy is in the process of cleaning- up and transferring the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (the Shipyard) to the City of San Francisco to redevelop. The City selected Lennar/BVHP LLC (Lennar) as the master developer of the Shipyard and entered into an agreement with Lennar and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (the Agency), known as the Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA), to guide the first phase of the Shipyard's redevelopment (Phase I). Phase I, which covers only 63 of approximately 500 total acres on the Shipyard, includes the development of:

♦ 1,600 residential units

♦ 20 acres of recreation and open space

♦ 10,000 square feet of commercial and retail space

In addition to Phase I, Lennar has also acquired the right to develop a second, 780 acre mixed-use project that encompasses land on the Shipyard, Candlestick Point and the adjacent public housing known as the Alice Griffith Housing Development, or Double Rock. This proposed Candlestick/Hunters Point Shipyard Combined Project (the Combined Project) is expected to include development of the following:

♦ 6,500 residential units on Candlestick Point and 2,500 residential units on the Shipyard

♦ Rebuilding of Alice Griffith Housing Development, also known as Double Rock, into a mixed-income neighborhood

♦ 2,000,000 sq. ft. of research and development space on the Shipyard for green technology and 150,000 sq. ft. of office space on Candlestick Point

♦ 500,000 to 700,000 sq. ft. of retail on Candlestick Point and 80,000 sq. ft. of retail at the Shipyard

♦ Permanent space for an African marketplace and the existing Shipyard artists

♦ Space for a new 49ers stadium on the Shipyard and an entertainment arena at Candlestick Point

♦ Over 350 acres of open space and recreation areas

Community Benefits

The Phase I DDA required Lennar and the Agency to provide a package of community benefits.  Those benefits were organized into two categories: the “baked in” benefits (those to be provided by Lennar) and the “enhanced” benefits (those to be provided by the Agency). (The complete text of the DDA, including the required community benefits can be found here.)

Lennar and the Agency are also currently negotiating a second package of benefits to be provided in connection with the Combined Project.  (An outline of the proposed community benefits package for the Combined Project can be found here.)

Finally, to assist the community in evaluating the existing community benefits package and in planning for the future Combined Project community benefits package, we have prepared a chart that outlines all of the benefits that were required in Phase I, summarizes the program evaluations that were prepared by the City Attorney’s Office, and suggests possible adjustments to the existing benefits that he community may wish to consider before including them in the package for the Combined Project. (The chart can be found here.)

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Development Plans for Bayview Hunters Point

On June 3, 2008, the voters of San Francisco considered two competing land use and development initiatives designed to impact development in the Bayview Hunters Point area: Proposition F (“Affordable Housing Requirement for the Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard Mixed-Use Development Project”) and Proposition G (“Jobs, Parks and Housing Initiative”). In the end, only Proposition G was approved. However, in addition to being impacted by Proposition G, development in Bayview Hunters Point also must conform to the existing land use and development plans (Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan and the Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopment Plan) and to the recently signed Core Community Benefits Agreement that was entered into on May 30, 2008, between the Alliance for District 10 and Lennar/BVHP LLC.

The sheer number of plans and their various parts has even the serious observers and participants in land use and development scrambling to sort out the specific details, potential down-the-road impacts, and the strengths and weakness of each mechanism (ballot measure, community benefits agreements and redevelopment plans).

To assist community organizers, residents and others in sorting through the details, the Bayview Hunters Point Economic Development Education and Advocacy Project created a comparison tool that provides both general information about the plan/ballot measure/agreement, as well as, detailed information on how each plan/ballot measure/agreement addresses a series of critical issues.