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Safety Improvements for Eastern Cesar Chavez Face Key Decision on Friday

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 27, 2012 | 5 Comments

Safety enhancements for Eastern Cesar Chavez Street are coming together after staff from the SFMTA and the SF Planning Department presented project plans at an open house last week. The near-term improvements include buffered bike lanes with soft-hit posts, while the long-term vision would add a two-way protected bikeway and wider sidewalks. One piece of the […]

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Community Planner Cindy Wu to Join the Planning Commission Today

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 16, 2012 | 4 Comments

The San Francisco Planning Commission has a new member today — Cindy Wu, a community planner at the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) who received high praise at a recent Board of Supervisors committee hearing before being unanimously appointed. As a commissioner, Wu will vote on planning decisions that shape the city’s streets, from streetscape […]

SF Agencies Take Aim at Bureaucratic Obstacles to a Transit-First City

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 9, 2012 | 14 Comments

San Francisco agencies are developing a wide-ranging program to streamline the funding and construction of improvements for walking, bicycling, and transit. The Transportation Sustainability Program (TSP) would reform the city’s transportation practices in three key areas: by eliminating reliance on the automobile-centric measuring stick known as Level of Service (LOS), by instituting a system of […]

City to Expedite Two Blocks of Fisherman’s Wharf Redesign for Summer 2013

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 6, 2012 | 27 Comments

As the plan to revamp the public realm on Jefferson Street in Fisherman’s Wharf develops, planners recently announced that two blocks of the project could be brought to life by summer of 2013 in time for America’s Cup. At a recent public meeting, staff from the San Francisco Planning Department’s City Design Group presented the […]

New Supes Proposal Would Expedite Sidewalk Expansions

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 30, 2012 | 9 Comments

[Note: This proposal was approved by the full Board of Supervisors.] Widening sidewalks in San Francisco is a time-consuming task — it’s the only city in California where even minor changes to a sidewalk’s width require legislative approval. But a new proposal headed to the SF Board of Supervisors would cut some of the red […]

Newcomb Ave. Sustainable Streetscape Project Completed in Bayview

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 21, 2011 | 4 Comments

After a six-year-long process, residents of Newcomb Avenue in the Bayview joined city staffers yesterday to mark the completion of the “Model Block” project, a prototype for street design that’s better for the environment and more conducive to neighborhood life. The block had been characterized by speeding traffic and illegal dumping. With this redesign it […]

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