San Francisco’s Slow Streets, created over the past two and a half years, provide safe, low-stress ways for people to move around the city on foot and on bikes. Slow Streets quickly proved popular with residents, as demonstrated in online surveys conducted by SFMTA, and in the ways neighbors have embraced them – embellishing the…
As we vote this November, San Franciscans can help create a more livable, equitable, and sustainable City. We can keep the Golden Gate Park’s public spaces for recreation and enjoyment of nature, with enhanced access to the park for all. We can sustain vital funding for frequent and reliable public transit. and for safer and…
The Fourplex ordinance was approved by the Board of Supervisors on October 18. The mayor has signaled she will sign it. The ordinance will permit new or renovated buildings of up to four units, and up to six units on corner lots, in all San Francisco’s Residential, House (RH) districts, which cover well over half…
For over two years San Franciscans have enjoyed JFK Promenade as 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week public commons through Golden Gate Park. Reclaiming our City’s largest park for recreation and the enjoyment of nature was a wise choice for our mental and physical health, and for the health of our living planet. This free, accessible, car-free is easily…
On June 7, San Franciscans can take two steps towards a more livable city by supporting propositions A and B on the City ballot. Since private automobiles and buildings are the two largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the City, greening our buildings and our transportation system is essential to meeting our climate goals…
The City of San Francisco is updating our Climate Action Plan. It will be the largest revision to our Climate Plan since the first one in 2004. The update follows on the Climate emergency declaration by the Board of Supervisors in 2019. We are in a planetary emergency, as the dismaying news of drought, fires,…
On Monday the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportation Committee will consider legisation to make the City’s Shared Spaces program permanent. It’s your chance to weigh in on the future of Shared Spaces. San Francisco’s Shared Spaces program helped sustain neighborhood businesses and expand usable public space during the pandemic. Shared spaces include the…
Preserving existing affordable housing and encouraging new affordable housing are two key strategies for addressing San Francisco’s housing affordability crisis. On Thursday, the Planning Commission will hold a hearing on an ordinance that advances both strategies.
May 13, 2020 Rich Hillis, Planning DirectorSan Francisco Planning Department1650 Mission Street, Unit 400San Francisco, CA 94103 Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of TransportationSan Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency1 South Van Ness AvenueSan Francisco, CA 94103 Dear Directors Hillis and Tumlin, On behalf of Livable City, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk San Francisco, we write to…
Sunday Streets and partners SF Counts are kicking off the 2020 season with a clear message: Everyone counts in the 2020 Census.
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