Anne Taupier

Biographie: Mayor Breed appointed Anne to the of Director of Development in the Office of Economic and Workforce Development in March of 2020. Prior to this appointment, Anne worked for over 10 years as a senior project manager on that office’s Joint Development team. Her focus in the Director’s position is on recognizing that housing affordability is a global crisis and the Joint Development team will be exploring and identifying the best practices and innovative solutions to address this crisis as it impacts San Francisco. The team is also responsible for delivering tangible results to entitle, construct and stabilize housing for every San Franciscan. This includes addressing the fact that there are deep structural problems of housing affordability created by significantly underbuilding over the past several decades and confronting the affordability and equitable housing crisis with 21st Century solutions. The Director of Development and Joint Development project managers work collaboratively with every City agency, overseeing the coordination, management, entitlement and implementation of large, mixed-use development projects as they navigate the City’s entitlement, legislative and political processes. The Director acts as the City’s “owner’s Rep” negotiating with market rate developers to provide community benefits packages that reflect and enhance the City’s housing, affordability, sustainability, jobs, open space, equity and transportation policy objectives. Anne has worked on projects including: The Hunter’s Point Shipyard, America’s Cup, 5M, The Plumber’s Union Mixed-Use project, The Conservatory of Music student housing project, India Basin mixed-use project, and the Kilroy, Flower Mart project. Prior to her role in OEWD, she was the Director of Scheduling for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom coordinating the Mayor’s daily, weekly and long-term strategic scheduling in concert with the Mayor’s communications director and Chief of Staff as well as all City department heads.