Rafael Mandelman
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24,802 appearances
85 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 1 Sep
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for development, secondary uses or joint development using specific evaluation criteria.
They canvassed thirty city departments, agencies and educational entities, including SFUSD and City College.
They examined well over a hundred properties representing approximately six point two million square feet.
of public land.
They apply to high level preliminary screening based on criteria such as being in poor or deficient condition, having excess land or low site utilization.
This all gives us preliminary results for properties that warrant further evaluation.
Now we expect the full report to be published in the coming days, but I'm happy to share that there's a lot of substance in what the BLA found.
Put another way, we're clearly sitting on a tremendous resource that we need to use better.
For example, the report will show that there are forty four vacant or soon to be vacant properties that may warrant further evaluation for affordable housing or other development opportunities.
And using specific sites the report specific sites, the report contemplates the number of units of housing that might be produced on vacant or underutilized land, and shows that this number quickly reaches many thousands of new homes.
The report also also pushes us to be more thoughtful on how we organize our space, citing an example where SFUSD has administrative functions spread across eight different properties.
Moving from this analysis to action will take further research and discussion, but most of all it will take coordination and leadership.
And the BLA report will clearly
Lay out why the current process or lack of one falls short.
There's no true owner or vision for this process.
Instead it is left today to a piecemeal approach and it is fragmented heavily by department.
Now the good news is that one city agency has opted for a more systematic approach to evaluating their real estate portfolio.
The SF MTA, for example, through its joint development programme is proactively seeking to identify properties to generate revenue, modernize transportation facilities and support housing production.
But that begs the question why isn't this being done at every department or on a city wide scaled level?
So with the BLA's land report on our underutilized properties being published in the coming days, I am today submitting a hearing request to discuss the BLA's finding and policy options.
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