CCSF Trustees Meeting on Thursday Jan. 28 @4pm to discuss Balboa Reservoir

[Marcus Ismael]

The CCSF Board of Trustees is meeting tomorrow to discuss the possibility of development on the Balboa Park Reservoir at 4:00 pm in the Multi Use Building, Room 140. After this meeting and two subsequent Citizens Advisory Committee meetings, the RFP for development on the lot goes out and we should work to ensure that whatever gets sent out demands a high amount of housing and at a significant enough height. This site is roughly the size of Mission Rock and a Mission Rock-style development is completely appropriate for this area.

Earlier in the afternoon, the AHBP is being heard at Planning, but if you could come to the Board of Trustees meeting to speak either after or if you cannot make it to City Hall, it would be much appreciated. As long as we can get, at the very least, three to four people to speak in favor of a taller, denser development that is so close to transit on the Reservoir, that should show the Board that there is support for building something that isn't just more empty parking lots. The AHBP is great, but we've shown more than enough support for it and at least at the Board of Trustees you won't have to wait hours to speak. What you say at the Board will carry much more weight since - supposedly - other Board and CAC meetings have been filled with the typical parking-lot/single family zoning protector types. The Board needs to hear new perspectives.

Some basic things to note:

- The Reservoir isn't even a reservoir but rather a space for one - it currently is a parking lot that is almost always more than half empty 

- The site is one of four primary development sites that the City has prioritized; no building here means no building at all or more pressure on existing neighborhoods

- Balboa Park is a transit hub;  leaving the parking and expanding the empty space here defeats this purpose

- CCSF students and teachers need housing that is accessible

- CCSF can and should try and extract benefits from a development, but must first support that something be built there

[Marcus Ismael]

Something to note: There is new housing that was recently completed right on Ocean Avenue directly south of the Reservoir site (on top of the Whole Foods) that shows that taller, dense, transit-oriented housing can and does work in Balboa Park. Going up a floor or two and having several buildings of the type that exist on top of the Whole Foods on the Reservoir site is completely feasible.

[Donald Dewsnup]

Marcus where is the meeting being held at? 

[Mike Ege]

Think he said the Multi-Use building at City College. Across from the main campus. Most of the meetings have been held there.

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Details on Balboa Reservoir are on our website her: http://www.sfhac.org/events/

I'll be at AHBP today but AM planning on going to the Feb. 8th and March 14th meetings.

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 10:26:20 PM UTC-8, Marcus Ismael wrote:

[Mike Ege]

Given that I almost screwed up turnout for PlanCom, I won't be showing my face there. I'll go to Balboa Reservoir instead. It's across town but still easy by bus for me. 

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