San Francisco Planning Department

Planning Efforts Now Underway

Newly Adopted

Better Neighborhoods Program 

City Design Group

Eastern Neighborhoods Community Planning

Citywide Reports & Publications

Citywide Policy Planning develops planning policy to preserve and enhance San Francisco’s quality of life. Citywide Policy Planning maintains the city’s General Plan which provides guidance to all city agencies and departments regarding urban design, land use, transportation, housing, open space and a variety of other issues. Citywide Policy Planning also develops permanent controls—zoning, planning code controls and other regulations that implement the General Plan, both through community-based planning efforts and citywide initiatives.

DRAFT Preservation Element
Mark Luellen | Lead Planner

DRAFT Community Safety Element
Per the Mayor's Executive Directive 06-01, the Planning Department has completed a preliminary draft update to the General Plan's Community Safety Element.

Sarah Dennis Phillips | Lead Planner
415.558.6314

Housing Element 
Kearstin Dischinger | Lead Planner
415.558.6284

Recreation and Open Space Element 
Sue Exline | Lead Planner
415.558.6332

Bayview Hunters Point: Industrial District Update 
Mat Snyder | Lead Planner
415.575.6891

Candlestick / Hunters Point / Stadium
Mat Snyder | Lead Planner
415.575.6891

Executive Park Neighborhood Plan
Mat Snyder | Lead Planner
415.575.6891

India Basin Shoreline Community Planning Process
Mat Snyder | Lead Planner
415.575.6891

A community-based planning effort that seeks to forge a shared vision of the city's transit-served neighborhoods' future...

Glen Park Community Plan
Jon Swae | Lead Planner
415.575.9069

Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan
Rosemary Dudley | Lead Planner
415.575.9068

The Planning Department’s City Design Group works to improve San Francisco’s livability through concern for the physical qualities of the city...

The Better Streets Plan
Adam Varat | Lead Planner
415.558.6405

Cesar Chavez Street Design
Andres Power | Lead Designer
415.558.6384

Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan
Neil Hrushowy | Lead Planner
415.558.6471

Fourth and King Street Railyards Study
Joshua Switzky | Lead Planner
415.575.6815

Jefferson Street Design
Neil Hrushowy | Lead Planner
415.558.6471

Nicholas Perry | Urban Designer
575-9066

Mission Public Realm Plan
Ilaria Salvadori | Lead Planner
415.575-9086

Piazza San Francisco
Andres Power | Lead Planner
415.558.6384

Pavement to Parks
Andres Power | Project Manager
415.558.6384

San Jose Avenue Street Design
Andres Power | Lead Designer
415.558.6384

Transit Center District Plan
Joshua Switzky | Lead Planner
415.575.6815

Upper Market Street Design Concepts
Nicholas Perry | Lead Designer
575-9066

Northeast Embarcadero Study
The Department will conduct a focused public planning process to develop urban design and development recommendations for Port-owned surface parking lots on the west side of The Embarcadero, between Market and North Point Streets.

Kate McGee | Planner
415.558.6367

Housing Inventory
Teresa Ojeda | Manager
415.558.6251

Scott Dowdee | Lead Planner
415.558.6259

Commerce & Industry Inventory 
Teresa Ojeda | Manager
415.558.6251

Pipeline Quarterly Report 
Aksel Olsen | Lead Planner
415. 558.6616

Downtown Monitoring Report 
Johnny Jaramillo | Lead Planner
415.575.6818

A community-based planning effort that seeks to forge a shared vision of the city's transit-served neighborhoods' future...

Balboa Park Station Area Plan
Kate McGee | Lead Planner
415.558.6367

Central Waterfront Area Plan
Ken Rich | Plan Manager
415.558.6345

Market & Octavia Area Plan
Kearstin Dischinger | Lead Planner
415.575.9068

A focused effort to create more housing and full-service neighborhoods in and around the downtown.

Rincon Hill Area Plan
Joshua Switzky | Lead Planner
415.575.6815

A community planning process for the rezoning of the Eastern neighborhoods...

East SoMa (South of Market) Area Plan
Sue Exline | Lead Planner
415.558.6332

Mission Area Plan
Claudia Flores| Lead Planner
415.558.6473

Showplace Square/Potrero Area Plan
Ken Rich | Plan Manager
415.558.6345

Johnny Jaramillo | Lead Planner
415.575.6818

Central Waterfront Area Plan
Part of the Better Neighborhoods Program
Ken Rich | Plan Manager
415.558.6345

Upper Market Workshop Series & Design Plan
The Upper Market Workshop Series is a community visioning process that will create a plan to guide the future of the Upper Market corridor.

Abigail Kiefer | Planner
415.575.9065

Visitacion Valley / Schlage Lock Master Plan
The Planning Department and Redevelopment Agency are working with the community to create new zoning and a detailed master plan reflecting the community vision for the vacant Schlage Lock.

Stephen Shotland | Planner
415.558.6308