SPUR Lunchtime Forum: The Burnham Plan and its Legacy

"Stephen Tobriner, professor of architecture emeritus at UC Berkeley, explores Daniel Burnham’s 1905 master plan for San Francisco, a vision for the “Paris of America” that went unrealized in the wake of the 1906 disaster."

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SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Plans for a New Public Realm: Improving our parks, streets and plazas

By Valerie Carrasco |
"In the last few years, the San Francisco Planning Department has worked with communities to develop plans that rethink neighborhood parks, streets and plazas and how they are built and managed. These include the Better Neighborhoods Plans, the Mission Streetscape Plan, the Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan, Jefferson Street Redesign and the Showplace Square Open […]

Rincon Hill Streetscape Master Plan: 2011 Plan Update

By Aaron Bialick |
From SF Planning: The San Francisco Planning Department invites you to a public meeting to review and prioritize public realm improvements identified in the Rincon Hill Streetscape Master Plan After the Rincon Hill Plan was adopted in 2005, the Planning Department drafted a streetscape plan to implement public improvements in the neighborhood. The MTA Board approved all of […]

SFMTA Citizens Advisory Council

By Stan Parkford |
From SFMTA. Items of Note: 8. Presentation, discussion and possible action regarding the Van Ness Ave. Bus Rapid Transit Project. (Peter Gabancho, Project Manager). Motion 140625.01: The SFMTA CAC recommends the SFMTA develop a master plan for the historic and vintage fleet to: explore future expansion of historic line service, plan for future rehabilitation of […]

SFBC Treehouse Talk: Bike Plan 2009 – the rest of the Plan

By Michael Rhodes |
"We’ve adopted the SF Bike Plan and approved dozens of near-term improvement projects for the Bike Network, hooray! But what’s in the rest of the Bike Plan? Bikes on Muni? Colored pavement for bike lanes? Physically separated bikeways? Bike boulevards? All this and many more actions and initiatives for better biking in San Francisco are […]