A closed session opened the sequence
Brookfield Properties presented its revised Pier 70 plan inside a closed executive session at the San Francisco Port Commission meeting of 14 July 2026. J.K. Dineen reported the outline in the Chronicle the next day. Four parties carry the file from here: the Port Commission as first approver, the Board of Supervisors as second approver, Brookfield as master developer, and the two neighbourhood associations that have reviewed the changes.
The order of approvals
The revised plan must be approved by both the Port Commission and the Board of Supervisors. The report publishes no hearing calendar and records no vote at the closed session. Both bodies see the revised plan before any vertical construction starts.
Ninety feet and the ballot measure
The height ask is two storeys on multiple residential buildings, from 70 feet to 90 feet. The report identifies 90 feet as the maximum allowed under a 2015 ballot initiative. It publishes no proposition number. The added height supports about 70 more units, and the unit ceiling moves from 2,150 to 2,750.
What the developer argues
Brookfield vice president of development Tim Bacon put the case on the financing. "The additional 70 units makes it transition from something that is right on the edge of penciling to something that is starting to make a lot more sense," he said.
The same argument sets the schedule. Bacon said the changes could allow a 2027 groundbreaking on the first housing complex, a 350-unit apartment building on Lot E2. The report names no vertical developer, no general contractor and no financing source for that building.
The neighbourhood condition
The Potrero Boosters vice president, J.R. Eppler, tied support to the agreement text. "I am eager to see the specific changes to the development agreement and I understand that certain changes are necessary in order to make the project move forward in a timely fashion," he said. He set two conditions: hold at least the current minimum of affordable units, and deliver affordability in each phase where other residential is delivered.
The Dogpatch Neighborhood Association vice president, Donovan Lacy, said Brookfield had been "pretty engaged with both the Potrero Boosters and the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association over the last four to six weeks." He said the associations still need to understand what the changes mean for building affordable housing. He said the neighbourhood does not want to wait another decade for activity on the housing front.
The precedent the developer points to
The Treasure Island team is working with city planners on 1,400 to 2,800 additional homes, lifting that total from 8,000 to as many as 10,800. The former Creamery site at 655 Fourth St. moved from 960 units to 1,148, and One Oak moved from 460 to 541.
The city also cut the affordable requirement on market-rate developers from 15 percent to 5 percent. Bacon said rents are up 30 percent year over year while construction and operating costs have risen as fast or faster. The report states no signed construction loan for any phase one building.
The agreement text is not public
The report carries no text of the development agreement, no list of amended terms and no affordable unit total. It states that the number of affordable units would remain the same while the share falls from about 30 percent of the development to about 20 percent.
2027 rests on two votes and an unnamed build team
The 2027 date depends on the Port Commission and the Board of Supervisors first. It also depends on a construction team the report does not name.
The tenant base carries the site in the meantime. Building 12 holds 14 tenants, including the baker Breadbelly and the brewer Standard Deviant, both open seven days a week. General Catalyst takes the whole third floor in 2027, and Bay Padel is building seven pickleball courts and four padel courts on a former parking lot. That income sits on the same 28 acres as the homes the two votes would release.