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New Draft San Francisco Transbay Development Plan Unveiled Today

By Matthew Roth | Nov 19, 2009 | 7 Comments

Conceptual rendering of the San Francisco skyline with Transbay towers. Image: SF Planning Department The San Francisco Planning Department will release the Draft Plan for the new Transbay Terminal and development project after the Planning Commission meeting tonight at 5:30 p.m. According to Planning’s Joshua Switzky, the plan will be presented to the commission but […]

San Francisco Starts Building Green Streets For Stormwater Management

By Matthew Roth | Nov 18, 2009 | 10 Comments

Without question, Portland’s Greenstreets program is the benchmark for American cities seeking to manage storm water and runoff from the street level before it enters the sanitation system pipes. Now, San Francisco is on its way to constructing its first on-street stormwater facilities in two places in the Bayview and Visitation Valley, pilots that should […]

Planning Chiefs: Urban Planning Still Hindered by Politics, Past Mistakes

By Michael Rhodes | Nov 6, 2009 | 19 Comments

Over 200 people showed up to hear planning directors speak. Photo: Michael Rhodes City planners have been on the hook for some of the last century’s greatest metropolitan mishaps: urban freeways and "slum clearance," arbitrary minimum parking requirements, and land use laws that have left little room for the mingling of uses. Understandably, today’s planners […]

San Francisco Moves to Remake Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 9, 2009 | 29 Comments

A highly conceptual image from the SFCTA of what a re-visioned Market Street could look like. Five San Francisco agencies, together with a number of community partners, will initiate a series of bold trials this month, which they hope will eventually help transform Market Street into a revitalized, thriving city thoroughfare, bustling with "activated public […]

San Francisco’s Two Newest Trial Plazas Nearly Complete

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 8, 2009 | 11 Comments

San Jose/Guerrero plaza. Photo: Michael Rhodes San Francisco’s two newest Pavement to Parks trial plazas are both on track to open by Thursday, with only the finishing touches remaining. Jane Martin, who helped about 40 neighbors plant trees and shrubs in the planter beds at the San Jose/Guerrero plaza this Sunday, said the space has […]

Construction Starts on Two New Pavement to Parks Plazas

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

Barricades are up at the site of the Lower Potrero plaza. Photo: Michael Rhodes When the plaza at 17th and Market Streets opened up last May, city officials promised more Pavement to Parks projects in short order. Yesterday, there was physical evidence at the sites of two new planned plazas that the city is making […]

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