On Monday December 16, 2019, the Coalition’s Marina Committee (Committee) met with the S.R. Community Development Department (CDD) and S.R. Dept. of Public Works (DPW) for our regular monthly review of the developments at The Village at Loch Lomond Marina (the residential portion is called “The Strand”) whose developer is Marina Village Associates (MVA). This is a summary of the items discussed at that meeting.
BCDC Permit Amendment #5: The majority of the meeting dealt with this item and other items related to it. This crucial document, which has been many, many months in process, was finally accepted and published by BCDC on December 4, 2019. Amendment #5 covers the BCDC-mandated work that MVA must accomplish in order to correct the flooding issues that have plagued the connector to the breakwater and the eastern jetty which contains the playground. The amendment states that the specified work must begin no later than 12/31/2020 and be completed by 12/31/2021. The City and this committee expressed concern for the unusual length of time given MVA to complete this work. For those interested in the details, here is the full BCDC Permit (No. 2006.010.05), which includes Amendments #5 and #6. The contents of this document has raised several other questions which will be pursued by the Committee in the coming weeks, some of which are documented below. In addition, the details of the flood remediation work to be done under Amendment #5 can be found in the Noble Consultants Project Drawings referenced in the BCDC Permit documentation.
BCDC Permit Amendment #7: This amendment was created to cover the planned boat fuel dock and fuel storage facility. It continues to languish awaiting updates by MVA requested by BCDC.
BCDC Permit Amendment #8: This item was not directly discussed at the meeting since it was issued on December 12, 2010 and S.R. and this committee were not made aware of it until shortly after our meeting. However, its subject was discussed at the meeting. The most recent BCDC Permit (see the discussion above) included Amendment #6 which extended completion deadlines for certain aspect of this project to December 1, 2019 which clearly has passed. BCDC Amendment #8 (No. 2006.010.08), a separate document, provides an extension of these deadlines to December 1, 2020. These items include the Harbormaster’s Office, the boat repair facility and the pedestrian path connecting the marina to the Bay Trail within The Cove subdivision. We had discussed what might be the BCDC’s response to MVA in missing this deadline (these items have not yet begun construction, let alone finished by December 1, 2019). Amendment #8 answers that question with BCDC extending the deadline. Our concern remains as to the passive role BCDC is taking in getting MVA to make progress on this development in the areas under its jurisdiction.
Yacht Club Re-facing and Kayak Dock: The plans for the refacing of the yacht club building to blend with the new architecture and the installation of a kayak dock between the yacht club building and the boat launch ramp are complete. However, MVA has not yet requested a permit to do the work.
Exterior Lighting on the South and West Faces of Andy’s Market: CDD met with Andy to resolve this lighting issue that is causing light pollution to spill into The Cove. Progress was made in resolving this issue. A meeting is being scheduled between Andy’s Market, CDD, The Cove and the SFPD to identify safety issues before final resolution.
The Cove-Marina Property Line Fencing: This fence is specified to be 8′ high and MVA agreed to implement a short stretch of 3′ high fencing at the Pt. San Pedro Road end. MVA wants to wait until the boat repair facility is complete before installing that fence. Given the slow progress of that work, the CDD agreed to take under advisement decoupling this fence from the boat repair facility and requesting MVA to erect it sooner.
Below Market Rate Units: This project was approved with 17 BMR units. All but 6 have been built and sold. MVA has requested an waiver of the remaining 6 units in lieu of a payment to the S.R. Restricted Fund for low-cost housing. The argument in favor of this action is that the amount of the in-lieu payment (estimated at approximately $4M) would result in far more than 6 low-cost housing units via City support of nonprofit housing entities. MVA would then be able to build and sell these 6 units at market rate. An amendment to the Subdivision Improvement Agreement could be presented by CDD staff to the S.R. City Council at their February 2020 meeting which would include conditions imposed on MVA to make substantial progress on the completion of this development project. Our committee was asked to develop our list of issues and conditions for consideration by CDD staff in making this recommendation to the S.R. City Council.
Meet with MVA and BCDC: It was agreed that our next meeting should include representatives of MVA and BCDC to discuss all these outstanding issues. The committee’s list of concerns and issues should be available at that meeting as part of this discussion and the committee agreed.