Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Urban Planning

Planning Unveils Street Design Toolkit in the Mission

By Matthew Roth | | 8 Comments
Flexible parking during Park(ing) Day in front of Ritual Coffee on Valencia Street At a well-attended community workshop in the Women’s Center auditorium on Wednesday night, the Planning Department presented the Mission Streetscape Plan (MSP), a set of tools for transforming streets in the Mission (large PDF).  Some of the proposed concepts are tried and […]

State Senator Takes on Parking Requirements

By Damien Newton | | 3 Comments
Last week, State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation that takes aim at how California’s municipalities think about parking and parking requirements.  What SB 518 (PDF) is missing in co-sponsors it makes up for in chutzpah.  If enacted, the legislation would require that every municipality in the state earn at least "20 points" in […]

The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers

By Matthew Roth | | 25 Comments
A valuable sidewalk, but parking should be removed and the sidewalk widened to accommodate pedestrians and meet ADA requirements. As we wrote a couple days ago about Jefferson Street, merchants on the commercial street there and throughout the city often assume parking spaces in front of their stores are vital to business, that their customers […]

Planning Department Unveils San Francisco’s First Pedestrian Priority Street

By Matthew Roth | | 8 Comments
The proposed design for a single-surface pedestrian priority Jefferson Street The City Design Group at the Planning Department has released its proposal for transforming Jefferson Street at Fisherman’s Wharf into a single-surface pedestrian priority street, the first of its size in San Francisco. Based on shared space or woonerfs, the plan calls for removing traditional […]
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