AC34 Venue News
SF board approves plan to host America's Cup race
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved an agreement to host the America's Cup sailing competition, which will take place in San Francisco Bay this year and next.
Mayor Ed Lee's office says the board on Tuesday unanimously approved the plan for San Francisco to host the sport's premier racing event.
The agreement finalizes the venues for the 34th America's Cup and calls for $20 million in pier and waterfront improvements in San Francisco. Read more »
America's Cup longshot: Exhibition in New York
San Francisco may have to wait a few months to get its first taste of America's Cup-style competitive racing, with race organizers looking to move the August exhibition race scheduled for the bay to New York. Read more »
America’s Cup publishes final environmental report
The final environmental impact report for the 2013 America’s Cup is out today.
Download a copy of the America's Cup EIR here. (Click on volume 5 and 6 for the latest version.)
Business groups, environmental organizations, neighborhood leaders and others will start poring over the document to see if it satisfies their concerns.
The report, required under the California Environmental Quality Act, is expected to go before the San Francisco Planning Commission Dec. 15. The commission will decide whether to certify that the report is a complete study of expected environmental impacts from the event. Read more »
The People Plan has been accepted by the America's Cup Event Authority
The latest draft of the America's Cup San Francisco "People Plan" for the 2012 and 2013 regattas on San Francisco Bay has been accepted by the America's Cup Event Authority. You can download the 99-page PDF below. Read more »
SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission resists filling Rincon Park basin with superyachts
The agency that guards our bay has a message for America's Cup organizers who want to park two dozen "superyachts" along Rincon Park on San Francisco's waterfront in 2013: not so fast.
"Filling this basin with large yachts ... would significantly impact the public's ability to enjoy the bay," reads the official response by the state's Bay Conservation and Development Commission to the draft environmental impact report for the fabled regatta. The comment period on the report closed on Aug. 25.
The letter also describes "this special place along the San Francisco waterfront" as the only downtown stretch that combines "space for play, quiet contemplation, viewing the bay and other activities." Read more »
