Rec & Park seeks street and easement vacations for India Basin waterfront park; committee advances ordinances

The Recreation and Park Department presented June 6 on the India Basin Waterfront Park renovation and the related street and public utility easement vacations that will allow park construction at 900 Innis Avenue and adjacent parcels.

David Froelich, project manager, described the Equitable Development Plan (EDP) that guided the India Basin waterfront study and said the project aims to remediate decades of industrial contamination, expand shoreline parks, and link new open spaces via pedestrian and bicycle connections in Bayview Hunters Point. Froelich said the proposed vacation footprint overlaps the western edge of future park developments and that Rec & Park plans to seek a second vacation boundary later; the board files cited were 220,448 (resolution of intention) and 220,450 (ordinance ordering the street vacation).

Froelich requested that committee amend item 2 to include a committee-of-the-whole (COA) date of July 12; the committee adopted the amendment, and members voted to forward item 2 as a committee report and item 3 to committee of the whole with positive recommendations. The committee vote was recorded as Peskin, Preston and Melgar voting aye.

Next steps: the items will appear on the Board agenda and the Rec & Park department said it will return for a later second vacation boundary after survey work is complete.