Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Project

Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Project

Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island (collectively, "the Islands") are in the San Francisco Bay, about halfway between the San Francisco mainland and the City of Oakland; together the Islands comprise approximately 550 acres. The Islands are the site of the former Naval Station Treasure Island ("NSTI"), which the United States Navy owned prior to its closure on September 20, 1997. The Islands also include a U.S. Coast Guard Station, the Job Corps site, which is under the management of the U.S. Department of Labor, and land occupied by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and tunnel structures. (No changes to the Job Corps site, the Coast Guard Station and/or the land occupied by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and tunnel structures were contemplated as part of the redevelopment of the Islands. These areas are not considered part of the project site delineated for environmental review purposes.) A final environmental impact report ("FEIR") for the subject project, file number 2007.0903E and State Clearinghouse No. 2008012105, was certified on April 7, 2011. The project analyzed in the FEIR is the Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island Area Plan ("Area Plan") which provides the basis for redevelopment of most of the Islands from a primarily low-density residential area with vacant and underutilized nonresidential structures to a new mixed-use community with a retail center, open space and recreational opportunities, on-site infrastructure, and public and community services, as described in more detail below. The Area Plan was added to the San Francisco General Plan on April 5, 2011. In addition, a Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Special Use District ("SUD") was added to the San Francisco Planning Code as planning code section 249.52, along with Zoning Map amendments (Sectional Map HT14). The SUD implements the objectives and policies of the Area Plan. The SUD also includes references to the Design for Development, which contains the standards and guidelines for development on the Islands; these comprise the basis for the development controls promulgated in the SUD. The development program analyzed in the EIR included approximately 8,000 residential units (of which up to 2,000 units would be affordable), 140,000 square feet of commercial and retail space, 100,000 square feet of office space, up to 500 hotel rooms, and 300 acres of parks and open space. Development of the Islands also includes new transportation, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, a ferry terminal and a transit hub, public and community services, and new and upgraded utilities infrastructure. Other development activities include supplemental remediation to allow the proposed uses, geotechnical stabilization, and renovation and adaptive re-use of existing historic structures.

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