The Chronicle discusses hopes for the revitalization of Leland Avenue and the redevelopment of the Schlage Lock Factory in Visitacion Valley.
Redevelopment key to Visitacion Valley revival, San Francisco Chronicle, via The Other Side of the Tracks.
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Redevelopment key to Visitacion Valley revival
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Deal on transfer of Treasure Island
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010The official transfer of the man-made island in the middle of San Francisco Bay from the Navy to the city will have to wait until environmental reviews are completed. Final project approvals and the actual transfer are expected this spring.
But after negotiations that spanned three presidencies, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus signed a transfer agreement on Tuesday that includes payments to the Navy that could top $105 million, funded by private companies and revenue from developing the island into a model 21st century neighborhood.
Deal on transfer of Treasure Island – San Francisco Chronicle.
Proposed Developments Illustrate San Francisco’s Parking Dilemma
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010At the San Francisco Planning Commission meeting, Mid-Market commercial project, CityPlace, is criticized for too much parking; Mission project on Valencia Street is criticized for too little.
Streetsblog San Francisco » Proposed Developments Illustrate San Francisco’s Parking Dilemma.
Tech firms making S.F. new home
Monday, June 21st, 2010The Chronicle discusses web-based firms looking for office space in the SOMA district of San Francisco.
As of June 15, 83 technology companies were in the market, seeking 1.5 million square feet of space, up 51 percent since the financial crash in fall 2008, according to brokerage firm Jones Lang LaSalle, which regularly tracks the market.
Tech firms making S.F. new home – San Francisco Chronicle.
Community Rallies Around Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010A pedestrian-priority shared street is part of the draft vision for Fisherman’s Wharf, a highly-trafficked destination in San Francisco.
Streetsblog San Francisco » Community Rallies Around Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan.
San Francisco mayor proposes shift in affordable housing funding
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing a shift of affordable housing funding from development in-lieu fees to a transfer tax on the sale of property. The shift is intended to remove an upfront cost on the development of new housing in the city, and shift financing of affordable housing to a broader, steadier source.
S.F. supes knock down plan for new condo tower
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
A developer’s plan to erect a 38-story condominium tower next to San Francisco’s landmark Transamerica Pyramid was knocked down by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday night.
S.F. supes knock down plan for new condo tower – San Francisco Chronicle.
San Francisco First City in the Nation to Count Its Parking Spaces
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
With new development, especially when taller buildings or new uses are being proposed, parking is often a point of contention. How many spaces are needed? How will future uses get to the building? What do the banks or future tenants require? Too much parking and you have wasted space and wasted cost, not to mention the impacts on urban design and sense of place. Too little parking, and you chase away customers or can’t sell units, and you make the neighbors unhappy.
But fear and rules of thumb, more than hard data, often drive this discussion. In an effort to change that, San Francisco has completed a survey of the public parking spaces in the city. And the data is available to download for general use.
The survey was conducted as part of the work of SFpark, a program to begin actively managing parking pricing to make public parking more-readily available and more-effectively utilized.
And what you really wanted to know – how many spaces are there in San Francisco?
The total number of spaces, as Mayor Gavin Newsom recently announced on his Youtube site, is 441,541. Of the total, over 280,000 are on-street spaces, 25,000 of which are metered. For just the on-street spaces, that is roughly the equivalent area of Golden Gate Park.
The non-metered on-street spaces were calculated with a survey sample of 20% of the city’s blocks. They are still working to count additional streets. Next up: a count of private garages. According to Matthew Roth at Streetsblog, some estimate as many as 800,000 parking spaces in total in SF when private spaces are added to the mix.
Streetsblog San Francisco » San Francisco First City in the Nation to Count Its Parking Spaces.
Treasure Island development slims down
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Courtesy rendering, via The Examiner
San Francisco discusses draft design guidelines for new development on Treasure Island, including how to regulate the planned-for towers with enough flexibility for an interesting urban landscape.
Treasure Island development slims down | San Francisco Examiner .
San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Rendering of cafe seating in place of parking. Image - RG Architects, via Streetsblog.
Matthew Roth at Streetsblog reports on plans to convert parking spaces to cafe seating along Divisadero in San Francisco.
Following up on city experiments with converting street space to plazas, and annual Park(ing) Day, where groups around the world convert parking spaces to mini parks for a day, the city is set to convert two parking spaces in front of a cafe in a matter of weeks, once ongoing road work along Divisadero is completed. Similar to the earlier plazas, the conversion is temporary and does not affect the underlying street infrastructure. This makes it more affordable and allows the space to be converted back to parking if the experiment goes awry for any reason.
See Matthew Roth’s article for more details on the project.
Streetsblog San Francisco » San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions.
Columbus Avenue in North Beach may be soon to follow: Cafes get more sidewalk under North Beach plan – San Francisco Chronicle.
Update: Follow-up article in the San Francisco Chronicle. S.F. plazas, ‘parklets’ spout, squeeze out cars.