DT – Fiber for Public and Affordable Housing

This project will build a fiber broadband network to support free internet access to tenants in public and affordable housing sites, navigation centers, and homeless shelters. City investment to deliver fiber-based internet service to affordable housing is an important equity initiative, since the project seeks to provide very low-income residents and those struggling with homelessness with internet access that will open access to educational, health care and work resources. In partnership with MOHCD’s Digital Equity Program, DT has identified 212 additional sites that remain to be connected: 171 existing buildings and 41 new construction sites that will be completed in 2024 – 2028. DT Secured a Last Mile Federal Funding Account Grant from the California Public Utilities Commission which will allow the department to provide broadband service to unserved locations and affordable housing in the Bayview, Chinatown and Tenderloin neighborhoods. Due to the very limited term of this grant and resource constraints, DT will focus on the grant funded work in 2025 and 2026, which includes 43 affordable housing sites.

This project is expected to cost an additional $22.5 million over three years. To date, $12.5 million has been funded through the General Fund and FY2023 Certificates of Participation. 

DT – Fiber Backbone

This project aims to expand infrastructure that supports high-speed data communications for City fiber back haul and wireless networks. The benefits of pervasive connectivity include improved access to digital information and services, as well as expanding coverage to City departments and neighborhood institutions, serving underserved communities, and improving network performance for City services and infrastructure.

The Fiber Optic Backbone provides additional capacity and greater redundancy on the City's fiber network by installing additional fiber optic cables on key routes that serve critical public safety facilities and multiple City buildings. As demand for fiber optic connections to City facilities has grown, capacity on the City's key fiber optic routes has become exhausted. Fiber optic capacity has also been further constrained as the City migrates away from the legacy phone system to digital Voice Over IP (VoIP) technology.

This project has received $2.5 million from FY2022 Certificates of Participation and an additional $850,000 from the General Fund. The estimated cost for remaining work is $20.6 million.

MOD – ADA Barrier Removals

MOD will continue its oversight and prioritization of ongoing barrier removal efforts at public facilities throughout the City.

It is expected that $800,000 of the Recreation and Parks Department’s set-aside and approximately $1 million of General Fund will be devoted to barrier removal projects annually. General Fund allocations would depend on the shovel-readiness of needs identified and funds available. These funds are in addition to code compliance components of debt-funded projects, which appear in the relevant Service Area chapters for those programs.

RED – Wholesale Produce 

The San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market, or “SF Market”, has been a critical piece of San Francisco’s food infrastructure for well over 130 years, offering fresh produce to local and regional grocers, specialty retailers, restaurants, hotels, and caterers. Located on 23 acres of City land in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood since the early 1960s, the Market is in the midst of a multi-phase reinvestment and expansion plan designed to secure and modernize its physical plant, replace outdated facilities, improve worker safety, and ensure the Market’s place in the region’s foodshed through any crisis. As currently envisioned, the expansion project will increase the Market’s footprint by 25%. Phase I of the project—a new 82,000 square foot warehouse at 901 Rankin Street—was completed in 2015. The project will be implemented over a 20 to 30-year development horizon, supported by the Market’s long-term lease with the City, approved in 2012. While not primarily a publicly funded project, the expansion plan will rely on revenue from the Market’s subleases to its produce merchants, conventional bank loans, targeted City support, outside grants, New Market Tax Credits, and other sources. 

Project costs for the phases expected to be implemented during the timeframe of the FY2026-35 Capital Plan total approximately $140 million. This includes two new or renovated warehouse buildings, an improved marshalling yard, and associated site improvements. Per the terms of its lease with the City, the Market deposits net revenues into a development account, in lieu of paying rent to the City. In turn, these funds are directed back into the development of the reinvestment project, which helps offset the cost of individual phases.