Schlage Lock Site Redevelopment
The Schlage Lock site has long been a blight on our neighborhood as an eyesore, an ecological threat, and a lost opportunity. The facilities have been closed since 1999 making the 20 acres comprising the site a potential area for development. The Ingersoll Rand Company, which owns the majority of the site including the most contaminated areas, has not maintained the property, has no plans to clean-up or redevelop the property, and appears to be unwilling to sell it.
Sophie Maxwell and the Board of Supervisors initiated the process of improving the Schlage Lock site by means of declaring it a redevelopment zone. Once designated as a Redevelopment Area, the City has means and resources not othewise available to remediate the site. In Julty 2005 the Board of Supervisors designated the site along with a portion of Bayshore Boulevard and Leland Avenue the Visitacion Valley Survey Area.
As part of the redevelopment process, the Mayor established a Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC). The CAC will advise the Redevelopment Agency and the City in their consideration of whether to declare the area a Redevelopment Area--that is, make the Redevelopment Survey Area a Redevelopment Area--and work with the Planning Department to create Redevelopment Plan for how the site should be developed.
The CAC meets on the second Tuesday of every month from 6 to 8 PM.
The 2007 schedule of meetings of the Visitation Valley CAC
January 9
February 13 (agenda) (flyer)
March 13
April 10
May 8
June 9 Special Meeting! (agenda)
June 12 (agenda)
July 10
August 14
September 11
October 9 (presentation from Department of Public Health)
November 13
December 11
All meetings are from 6-8PM at the Visitation Valley Elementary School at 55 Schwerin Street, San Francisco, CA 94134.
Related links:
The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency's Visitation Valley Redevelopment Survey Area web page
The San Francisco Planning Department's page on the Leland Avenue Master Plan