BayRail Alliance

Time/date: July 25, 2007 6:30-8:30 pm

Source: San Francisco Planning Department

1st public workshop of many to come on the Transit Center District Plan. This is focused on the southern portion of downtown San Francisco, with a particular focus on the vicinity of the Transbay Transit Center. Building on the recently adopted Transbay Redevelopment Plan as well as the 1985 Downtown Plan, this effort will examine the future of Downtown's new core. This workshop will introduce the planning effort and initial objectives and seek public input on the scope of analysis and issues the planning department should consider. location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St. between 3rd and 4th Streets San Francisco More information at transitcenter.sfplanning.org or contact Joshua Switzky at joshua.switzky@sfgov.org or call 415.575.6815

Time/date: Monday, March 26, 2007 6:30 PM

Source: Transbay Joint Powers Authority

Please Join Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, members of the Transbay Joint
Powers Authority (TJPA) and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to
learn more about the plans underway to build the new Transbay Transit
Center.

This new Transit Center will replace the current Transbay bus
terminal at First and Mission streets in downtown San Francisco
with a Grand Central Station of the West.  The project will:

* Create a central downtown Transit Center that will connect the
San Francisco Bay Area and the State through eight transit systems:
AC Transit, BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, MUNI
(including paratransit for seniors and the disable), SamTrans and
future High-Speed Rail.

* Extend the Caltrain rail line underground from Fourth and King
streets into the new Transit Center

* Build a vibrant new neighborhood surrounding the Transit Center
with 3,400 homes (35% affordable)

For more information please visit http://www.transbaycenter.org

Community Meeting:
6:30 pm, Monday, March 26, 2007

West Bay Conference Center
1290 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

Accessible by MUNI bus lines 22 and 31

The West Bay Conference Center is wheelchair accessible.

To request real time captioning, a sign language interpreter or
other accommodations, please contact Heather Barber at the TJPA
at (415) 597-4620 or <info@transbaycenter.org>.

Time/date: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007 5:30 PM

Source: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room
San Francisco, CA 94103

agenda: Presentation by SFRA Staff of Market-Rate and Affordable Housing Program for Zone One of the Transbay Redevelopment Project Area (60 min)

June 15, 2004 — In an exhausting hearing that ended past 3 a.m. the next day, BayRail Alliance and other groups succeed in getting the SF Board of Supervisors to unanimously uphold the Transbay EIR against appeals filed by some neighborhood interests and a private developer.

June 7, 2005 — BayRail Alliance, working with TRANSDEF, files a “friend of the court” (amicus) brief along with the Sierra Club, TRAC, San Francisco Tomorrow, and TALC, requesting speedy appeal of a ruling on the Transbay Terminal project’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR). A ruling by a judge in favor of private developer Jack Myers has halted preliminary planning and engineering for the project. The groups ask the appeals court to stay (halt) the judge’s order pending appeal. This succeeds in producing a speedy stay of the order, allowing planning and engineering for the Transbay Project to proceed. Myers later drops the appeal after the City of San Francisco agrees to pay $34 million to acquire his property through eminent domain.

April 22, 2004 — BayRail Alliance, working with other groups in San Francisco, overcomes opposition from a greedy developer and some neighborhood interests and convinces the SF Board of Supervisors to approve environmental documents for the Transbay Terminal project, which includes extending Caltrain and future high-speed rail.

2001 — PR2000 changes its name to BayRail Alliance and launches a campaign for the passage of Assembly Bill 1419, which the state legislature approves by a 1-vote margin, to transfer Transbay Terminal land and development rights from Caltrans to San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to build new terminal and Caltrain extension. The Redevelopment Agency has pledged all of the proceeds (tax increment) from the development to the rebuilding of the Transbay Terminal and Caltrain Downtown extension. This amount is estimated at $1.2B of the $1.8B cost of the project.Governor Davis vetoes the bill, but directs Caltrans to support the land transfer administratively.

November 2, 1999 — After a campaign by SF-based groups and PR2000, SF voters pass Prop. H with 69% of the vote. It requires city officials to seek funding for, and build, Caltrain downtown extension to a new or rebuilt terminal on the present site of the Transbay Transit Terminal, to protect right-of-way for the extension, and also to "pursue electrification of the Caltrain line from San Francisco to San Jose prior to or concurrent with the extension of Caltrain downtown".