Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parks

Funds for San Diego “Park” Go Mostly to Free Parking for County Employees

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 5, 2015

Nobody’s going to give San Diego County an award for park planning — we hope! — on its “Waterfront Park project,” which is more accurately described as the “subsidized garage project.” Grinning county officials recently cut the ribbon on a $36 million parking garage that will be free for county employees. With 640 spaces, the […]

Park Areas Under Central Freeway Downsized to Retain Caltrans Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 25, 2013 | 8 Comments

A plan to convert parking lots under the Central Freeway near Duboce and Valencia Streets into a skate park and dog run is moving forward, but it won’t include basketball courts or a children’s playground as originally envisioned by residents. Because the city will have to lease the land from Caltrans, which owns and collects […]

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Separated Bike-Ped Path Coming to Mansell Street in McLaren Park by 2016

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 23, 2013 | 8 Comments

Mansell Street, which runs through McLaren Park, is poised to get a two-way bikeway and a walking and jogging path separated from motor traffic under a plan approved by the Recreation and Parks Commission last week. Mansell is a wide roadway with no dedicated space for walking and biking, and its four traffic lanes are […]

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Wayfinding Signs: A Nice Touch for the Developing “Green Connections” Plan

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 27, 2012 | 15 Comments

City planners continue developing a vision for a network of lush, pleasant streets prioritized for walking and biking between the city’s parks and waterfronts. Staff from the SF Planning Department plans to present its draft network [PDF] for the “Green Connections” project at an open house next Wednesday, October 3, and the public is invited to weigh […]

The Outside Lands Transpo Crunch: Bringing 65K People Per Day to GG Park

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 7, 2012 | 30 Comments

For the fifth year, San Francisco’s transportation system will absorb one of its largest floods of travelers when 65,000 daily attendees descend upon Golden Gate Park this weekend for the three-day Outside Lands music festival. With festival goers traveling from near and far, promoters have tried each year to curb the number of people arriving […]

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UCSF Campus Plan Orders Up an Extension of 4th Street — Hold the Cars

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 10, 2012 | 3 Comments

Rarely does the opportunity to create a new street present itself in a densely built-out city like San Francisco. But neighbors and planners at the developing Mission Bay campus of the University of California, SF decided to make the best of such a chance by designing an extension of Fourth Street as a car-free plaza. Fourth […]

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