SPUR Forum: Open Space Design at Ocean Beach

From SPUR:

How is the Ocean Beach Master Plan being implemented and what will it impact? In the third program in this three-part series, we’ll learn how a decommissioning of two lanes of the Great Highway will provide opportunities to improve public access with a coastal trail and other amenities designed to adapt to an eroding coastline.

+ Frank Filice / San Francisco Department of Public Works
+ Patricia Fonseca / AECOM
​+ Benjamin Grant / SPUR

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