[Carfreeliving] Complete Streets at BoS (was Home Depot and Bayshore Blvd bikeway)

[thornley at thornley.com]

By the way, speaking of "complete streets", Ross Mirkarimi's resolution on
that theme is coming to the BoS CONS committee on Monday (8/1) afternoon,
along with the infamous GGPark Concourse Circulation Plan -- complete
streets fans should give this a good looking over and speak up now (and
for heaven's sake come out and tell the CONS what you think of the lame
lame lame deYoung "car-full Concourse" plan) . . .


    --Andy--


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Ordinance amending the Public Works Code to add Section 2.4.13 to require
the integration of transit, pedestrian, and bicycle improvements as part
of the construction, reconstruction, or repaving of public right-of-ways.

Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco:
Section 1.  The San Francisco Public Works Code is hereby amended by
adding Section 2.4.13, to read as follows:

SEC. 2.4.13.  TRANSIT, PEDESTRIAN, AND BICYCLE IMPROVEMENTS AS PART OF
CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REPAVING PROJECTS.
(a)  Whenever the Department or other Municipal Excavator undertakes a
project involving the construction, reconstruction, or repaving of a
public right-of-way, such project shall include, to the maximum extent
practicable and feasible, the following transit, pedestrian, and bicycle
improvements:
(1)  Street and sidewalk lighting;
(2)  Pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements measures, as established
in any official City adopted bicycle or pedestrian safety plan;
(3)  Appropriate access in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities
Act;
(4)  Public transit facilities accommodation, including, but not limited
to designation of the right-of-way as a transit preferential street
designation or bus rapid transit corridor;
(5)  Traffic calming devices;
(6)  Landscaping; and
(7)  Streetscape amenities.
(b)  The Director, in consultation with the General Manager of the
Municipal Transportation Agency and other affected City departments,
including the Planning Department and Department on the Environment, shall
develop orders, regulations, or amendments to the Department's Standard
Plans and Specifications that address the improvements set forth in
Subsection (a).
(c)  To the maximum extent practicable and feasible, the Director shall
condition all excavation and street improvement permits on the inclusion
of the improvements set forth in Subsection (a).  If such conditions would
exceed the Director's regulatory authority, the Director shall coordinate
with other City departments to provide, to the maximum extent practicable
and feasible, said improvements on behalf of the City.   As part of the
decision on any permit or authorization pursuant to the Public Works Code,
the Director shall take into account the permit activity's positive and
negative impacts on the integration, enhancement, or preservation of the
improvements set forth in Subsection (a).