January 30, 2017 Julianne Polanco, State Historic Preservation Officer Attention: Mark Beason Office of Historic Preservation 1725 23rd Street, Suite 100 Sacramento, CA 95816 John Fowler, Executive Director Attention: Najah Duvall Office of Federal Agency Programs Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 401 F Street NW, Suite 308 Washington, DC 20001 Laura Joss, Regional Director Attention: Elaine Jackson-Retondo National Park Service – Pacific West Regional Office 333 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Craig Kenkel, Acting Superintendent Attention: Steve Haller Golden Gate National Recreation Area Building 201 Fort Mason San Francisco, CA 94123 Reference: 2016 Annual Report on Activities under the 2014 Presidio Trust Programmatic Agreement, the Presidio of San Francisco National Historic Landmark District, San Francisco, California Pursuant to Stipulation XIV of the Presidio Trust Programmatic Agreement (PTPA, 2014), enclosed is the 2016 Annual Report of activities conducted under that PA. In 2016, the Presidio Trust celebrated the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act alongside the nation’s preservation community with a sense of reflection, gratitude and forward-looking purpose. We were also pleased to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service, and thank our partners for their trailblazing role in preserving American cultural heritage here in California and beyond. Our principal activity for recognizing these milestones was to host the 41st annual California Preservation Foundation conference at the Presidio in April. At the conference we were enormously proud to be recognized by CPF president Kelly Sutherlin McLeod as “perhaps the biggest preservation success story of the 20th century”, praise that would not be possible without the contributions of our partner agencies, tenants and park users. We are exceptionally grateful for the many preservation advocates, professionals and organizations that have made the revitalization of the Presidio of San Francisco such a success, and we look forward to your continued collaboration as we embark on the NHPA’s next 50 years. The enclosed report documents all compliance decisions, including Appendix A, administrative and full reviews for the calendar year 2016. Between January and December 2016, 44 projects were reviewed by Trust preservation professionals through Stipulation IV of the PA (commonly referred to as the “N2” process). Of these, 39 were reviewed at the administrative level and 5 at the full level of review. Undertakings reviewed included the rehabilitation of a Montgomery Street barracks to expand the Presidio’s hotel offerings, reforestation of a key historic stand of cypress trees, and reuse of a historic streetcar depot for two public-serving tenants. As in years past, the Trust reviewed a substantial number of “repetitive or low impact activities” through Appendix A of the PA. Appendix A includes actions such as cleaning, painting and cyclic repairs to buildings, replacement in-kind of deteriorated roofs, road and parking lot maintenance, abatement of hazardous materials, and other such low impact activities. The N2 team that participates in the agency’s project review process is comprised of eight preservation professionals that meet the Secretary of Interior’s standards for Archaeology, Historic Architecture, and Architectural History. The group of historic preservation staff regularly involved in full N2 reviews in 2016 is composed of historical architect Rob Wallace; historical landscape architect Michael Lamb; conservator and preservation project manager Christina Wallace; archaeologists Eric Blind, Kari Jones, and Liz Clevenger, (who are supported by staff archaeologists Juliana Fernandez and Edward DeHaro); and historic compliance staff Rob Thomson and Michelle Taylor. Staff historian Barbara Berglund also regularly contributes to preservation-related reviews. The historic compliance staff continues to collaborate closely with the Trust’s operations and maintenance crews, who work with the NHLD’s buildings, landscapes, roads and forests on a daily basis. These crews are composed of journeymen carpenters, masons, electricians, plumbers, gardeners and foresters, many of whom have been trained in preservation maintenance practice, and/or have multiple years of experience working with historic resources at the Presidio. Jean Fraser, the Trust’s new Chief Executive Officer joined the agency in September of 2016, kicking off a new era of leadership at the Presidio. Ms. Fraser came to the Trust following previous roles as the CEO of the San Francisco Health Plan, Chief of the San Mateo County Health System, and service in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office. In September, Ms. Fraser appointed Rob Thomson as the agency’s Federal Preservation Officer, a role he had performed in an acting capacity since early 2016. Also in September, Michelle Taylor assumed the title of Historic Preservation Specialist, owing to her enhanced role managing the department’s annual historic preservation intern and developing in-house training activities for Trust staff working with historic resources. She continues to carry out her previous duties of administering the Trust’s environmental and historic preservation review process, and acting as a liaison with our residential, building maintenance, project management and development teams on historic preservation issues. Additionally, Christina Wallace was promoted to Senior Project Manager for Historic Preservation ii in recognition of her exceptional contributions to several of the Presidio’s most challenging projects. Work continued on the Doyle Drive/Presidio Parkway project throughout 2016, including relocation and the first phases of rehabilitating building 201 (Warehouse, 1896), progress on delivering final parking lots and landscape areas throughout the project corridor, and soil stabilization measures to construct the re-created Main Post Bluff. Remaining work to be performed includes final landscape design and construction and completion of several remaining mitigation measures agreed to by the project. The Trust continues its strong working relationship with Caltrans, National Park Service and San Francisco County Transportation Authority cultural resource staff to ensure that the NHLD is well-protected and the commitments under the Doyle Drive PA are carried out. The Trust continued consultation on the Tunnel Tops (formerly New Presidio Parklands project) throughout 2016, including responding to comments from PTPA parties on the Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Finding of Effect, finalization of project design guidelines and continued coordination with Caltrans/FHWA regarding handover conditions from the Doyle Drive project. Design for the project continued through 2016, and the Trust looks forward to concluding consultation and releasing final designs to agency stakeholders and the public in 2017. Cyclic and preservation maintenance activities in 2016 included a continuation of the agency’s highly-successful preservation maintenance program for unoccupied historic buildings, along with work performed on the historic Simonds Loop, Upper Kobbe, Riley and East Washington residential neighborhoods. In 2016, Trust crews completed stabilization work on Crissy Field’s building 651 (Administrative Building, 1921), including critical roof and downspout repairs, along with exterior envelope patching and painting. Building 951 (Bachelor Officers’ Quarters, 1921) located at the eastern end of Pilots Row in north Fort Scott received roof repairs, paint and carpentry work to deteriorated historic elements such as its rooftop balustrade. Roof and exterior envelope repairs continued in the nine-building Thornburgh area of the Old Letterman Hospital complex (built 1899-1938), resulting in the completed mothballing of buildings 1040, 1047, 1062, 1060, 1059 and 1056. The Trust’s preservation maintenance activities continue to rely on a strong collaboration between the Trust’s building maintenance and compliance departments, which meet weekly and regularly collaborate on scope development and project prioritization. Trust documentation efforts continued to inform project design development and consultation support in 2016, including two historic structure reports prepared in 2015 (building 99, Theater, 1939; and building 105, Montgomery Street Barracks, 1895). In December, construction began on building 105, which the Trust will adaptively reuse as a 42-room hotel scheduled to open in the spring of 2018. A prospective tenant for the Theatre submitted successful parts 1 and 2 applications for the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credit program; construction on building 99 should begin in 2017 pending completion of lease negotiations. This project was facilitated by an amendment to the 2010 Programmatic Agreement for the Main Post Update (PA-MPU) that was executed in 2016, creating a process by which MPU projects could participate in the tax credit program while meeting other commitments under that agreement document. Also in 2016, design guidelines for the Tunnel Tops project were updated per agency comment and finalized in the spring to help guide that project through its final phases of design. iii The Trust continued landscape rehabilitation and habitat restoration work in the Tennessee Hollow watershed in 2016 consistent with plans analyzed in the 2008 Environmental Assessment and the 2001 Vegetation Management Plan. The MacArthur Meadow project was largely completed, including