Yerba Buena Center redevelopment plan and development program : initial study

114 Pages·1991·3.8 MB·English

by  San Francisco (Calif.). Dept. of City Planning

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Date ofthis Notice: June 20, 1991
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Co-LeadAgency: San Frzmcisco Redevelopment Agency
770 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
Contact Person: Thomas G. Conrad Telephone: [phone]
Co-LeadAgency: City and County of San Francisco,
Department ofCity Planning
CA
450 McAllister Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, 94102
Contact Person: Barbara W. Sahm Telephone: [phone]
ProjectTitle: 9L355E Project Sponsor San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
770 Golden Gate Avenue
CA
San Francisco, 94102
Contact Perscm: Helen Sause
Telejrihone: [phone]
Project Address: Area generally bounded by Second, Harrison, Fourth and Market Streets.
Assessor'sBlocks and Lots: All ofblocks 3723, 3734, 375 and portions ofblocks 3705,
1,
3706, 3707, 3722, 3724, 3733, 3735, 3750, 3752, 3763.
City andConnty: San Francisco
Project Descripti<m: Proposed amendments to the YerbaBuena Center Redevelopment Plan,
which will include design guidelines, and proposed approval ofthe Phase Three Amendment to
the Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) between the San Francisco Redevelopment
Agency and Olympia & York concerning land within the Yerba Buena Center Redevelopment
Project Area (YBC). The amended YBC Redevelopment Plan initiates a parallel planning
process that make the Plan congruent, where appropriate, with the goals, policies, and land use
designations ofrelevant elements ofthe San Francisco Master Plan and the City Planning Code.
The relevant Master Plan elements are the Downtown Plan and the South ofMarket Plan,
specific provisions ofwhich are being incorporated into the Redevelopment Plan as aie relevant
portions ofthe City Planning Code. The amended YBC Redevelopment Plan also includes the
YBC
reclassification of Height and Bulk districts within to reduce the scale offuture
development and to better reflect and complement the scale ofexisting and potential
development in the surrounding area.
THIS PROJECT MAY HAVE A SIGNIHCANT EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND
AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT IS REQUIRED. This determination is based upon
the criteria ofthe Guidelines ofthe State Secretary for Resources, Sections 15063 (Initial
Study), 15064 (Detennining Significant Effect), and 15065 (Mandatory Findings of
Significance), and the following reasons, as documented in the Environmental Evaluation (Initial
Study) for the project, which is attached.
Deadline for Filing an Appeal ofthis Detennination to the City Planning
Commission: July 22, 1991.
An applies requires: 1) a letter specifying the grounds for appeal, and;
2) a $75.00 filuig^fee.
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^YERBA BUENA CENTER REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
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AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
INITIAL STUDY
91.355E
INTRODUCTION
I.
The purpose ofthis Initial Study is to focus topics requiring analysis in a Subsequent
Environmental Impact Report based on a review ofenvironmental documentation for the
Yerba Buena Center Redevelopment Project Area (hereinafter referred to as YBC). The
proposed project for the purpose ofthis Initial Study consists ofamendments to the Yerba
Buena Center Redevelopment Plan to be adopted by the Redevelopment Agency and the
Board ofSupervisors and the Phase Three Amendment to the Disposition and
Development Agreement between the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and
&
Olympia York. The proposedproject is outlined below.
The project forthe YerbaBuena Center Subsequent Environmental Impact Report
(hereinafter referred to as the YBC Subsequent EIR). Case 91.355E, consists of(1)
amendments to the Yerba Buena Center Redevelopment Plan (hereinafter referred to as
the Redevelopment Plan), and (2) consideration ofthe Phase Three Amendment to the
Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) between the Redevelopment Agency and
Yerba Buena Gardens Ltd. (hereinafterreferred to as YBG Ltd.), a California limited
parmership (the managing general partner ofwhich is Olympia & York - YBG L.P., an
affiliate ofOlympia & York Development, Limited, ofToronto, Canada) for the Yerba
Buena Gardens portion ofYBC. The amendments to the Redevelopment Plan, which will
include design guidelines, concem the incorporation ofthe goals, policies, and objectives
ofthe Downtown Plan and the South ofMarket Plan (hereinafter referred to as the SOM
Plan) and the relevant provisions ofthe City Planning Code, and the redesignation ofsome
YBC
ofthe height and bulk classifications within to reduce allowable height and bulk.
The Phase Three Amendment to the DDA sets the scope ofdevelopment on Eastem
Block 2 (EB-2) (see Figure 2 for designation ofblocks within YBC); establishes how the
Redevelopment Agency will receive consideration for the conveyance oftwo parcels on
EB-2 to Olympia & York; establishes that YBG Ltd. wUl no longer be obligated to
develop Central Block 3 (CB-3) and that the Agency will assume responsibility for
YBG
development ofCB-3; and establishes Ltd.'s obligation to develop retail uses on
Central Block 2 (CB-2) and their right to develop on EB-2. Other aspects ofthe YBC
project are generally the same as those analyzed in the Second YBC EIR Supplement
,
certified in January, 1983, and as analyzed in the Initial Study prepared for the Moscone
Convention Center Expansion, dated November, 1987.
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The location ofthe project in alocal and regional context is shown in Figure 1 Block
designations for YBC and the project boundary are shown in Figure 2.
BACKGROUND
The Redevelopment Plan was prepared in accordance with the California Community
Redevelopment Law, and was originally adopted and approved by the San Francisco
Board ofSupervisors on April 25, 1966. It has been amended on six occasions. On April
25, 1978, the Yerba Buena Center Final Environmental Impact Report (EE.77.220, State
Clearinghouse No. 78011633), hereinafterreferred to as the YBC FEIR was certified by
.
the Redevelopment Agency Commission and the San Francisco City Planning
Commission. The YBC FEIR analyzed the environmental effects ofthe then-proposed
George R. Moscone Convention Center and altemative development scenarios for the
entire YBC. On July 21, 1981, a first supplement to the YBC FEIR was certified
(EE.81.27), and on January 4, 1983, a second supplement was certified (82.35E),
hereinafter referred to as the First and Second YBC EIR Supplements respectively. The
,
two supplemental EIRs updated and further analyzed in greater detail potential
development for certain portions ofYBC. The analysis in the Second YBC EIR
Supplement focused on a Main Program (which identifies proposed uses), and variants to
the Main Program, forYBC. In December, 1984, the Redevelopment Agency entered into
a Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) with Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG)
Associates, a California limited parmership, the sole general parmers ofwhich were
Olympia & York (U.S.) Development Company, L.P., Marriott Corporation, and the
DDA
Rouse Company. The proposed development ofthese blocks in three phases. Phase
One provided for development ofthe Marriott Hotel on CB-1. Phase Two provided for
development ofthe CB-1 office building and entertainment and retail uses on CB-2.
Phase Three provided for development ofEB-2. The developer has completed Phase One
DDA
and with the renegotiations ofthe to accommodate the expansion ofthe Moscone
Center, Phase Two has been modified to apply to the CB-1 office building and CB-2
retail. Amendments 1 through 11 ofthe DDA provide the mechanisms to accomplish the
Phase One and Phase Two development. The DDA govems the development and
operation of amixed-use development on approximately 24.5 acres ofland in the central
portion ofYBC (CB-1 CB-2, CB-3, and EB-2). By the Ninth Amendment to the DDA,
,
YBG Associates' interest in the DDA was assigned to YBG Ltd. By the Tenth
Amendment to the DDA, YBG Ltd. was restructured to include Marriott Corporation as a
general partner ofYBG Ltd. The DDA contemplated a development program similar but
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