Mission Streetscape Community Design Workshop 4

"Come represent cyclist and pedestrians to make sure the SF Planning Department incorporates the best designs and options in the new Mission Streetscape Plan! Have your say on what you’d like this important street should look like."

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This Week in Livable Streets Events

By Michael Rhodes |
An exciting week of livable streets discussions lies ahead, with a well-earned cookout to round things out. Here are the week’s highlights. Tuesday: SPUR Evening Symposium: The Post-Carbon City: Planning for abundance in an era of dwindling resources. A panel will discuss Eco-Urbanism, "a movement that emphasizes sustainability, as planners promote green buildings, ‘closed-loop’ architecture […]

Gentrification Fears Threaten to Derail Mission Street Improvements

By Aaron Bialick |
Mission District residents who equate streetscape improvements with rising rents dominated a community meeting discussion yesterday about public space upgrades along Mission Street. It was the Planning Department’s latest public meeting about its Mission Street Public Life Plan, an effort to envision Mission Street “as a vital transit corridor with art, commerce and new public spaces for people […]

Mission Public Life Plan Meeting

By Stan Parkford |
From the SF Planning Department: Please join us for the third public meeting for the Mission Public Life Plan. Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Location: Women’s Building Auditorium, 3543 18th Street #8 The Women’s Building is ADA accessible. For disability accommodations or language assistance, please contact us 48 hours in advance. At this meeting, we will […]

Planning Unveils Street Design Toolkit in the Mission

By Matthew Roth |
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 […]

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 […]