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OFFICIAL BCNA NEWS

ON THE WATERFRONT

Some of the Port’s Ups and Downs

Monique Moyer, executive director of the Port of San Francisco, opened her regular report to the City’s Port Commission August 12th with the comment that there was “a great turnout” for the Tuesday public meeting.

Indeed, the meeting room at the Ferry Building was full of people presumably eager to hear the Port’s own Review of the Waterfront Land Use Plan  1997-2014. (See Barbary Coast News dated August 13.) Continue Reading→

OFFICIAL BCNA NEWS

The Port, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD), is proposing to build affordable housing on the lot located at Broadway & Front Streets.  At a recent public meeting, the MOHCD recently outlined its objectives for the project.  Subsequently, BCNA and seven other neighborhood organizations released a joint letter urging the MOHCD to take a different approach toward the project. Continue Reading→

OFFICIAL BCNA NEWS

The Port of San Francisco made a public announcement of its decision to build affordable housing on Seawall Lot 322-1 at a public meeting of the Port Commission in November 2011.

Since that time the Port has been relying on public meetings of NEWAG (Northeast Waterfront Advisory Group) to disclose plans being made for this major enterprise on a seawall lot declared to be “useless for Public Trust purposes” under State legislation, SB 815 (then Senator Carole Migden), years ago, according to NEWAG. Continue Reading→