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Cesar
Chavez Street Design
The
Cesar Chavez Street Design Plan is a detailed design effort to
re-envision Cesar Chavez Street from Hampshire to Guerrero
Streets in the Mission District. The outreach and design process
will identify ways to make Cesar Chavez Street a safe, pleasant, and attractive
corridor for people, bikes, and transit that unifies, rather
than divides, the neighborhood.
For information
about other street design projects in the Mission District, see the
Mission Streetscape Plan.
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About the Project |
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This design
process will coordinate the efforts of the many different City
agencies with planned or approved projects along the Cesar Chavez
Street corridor to ensure that a safe, gracious, inviting, and
ecologically sustainable Cesar Chavez Street emerges as a focal point for one
of San Francisco’s most cherished neighborhoods.
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The project's goals
are to:
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Make Cesar
Chavez Street a safer place for people
by improving crossings, widening sidewalks, and enhancing
lighting;
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Redesign
Cesar Chavez Street
with high quality landscaping, gracious trees, pedestrian lighting,
and other design treatments;
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Reconnect
the neighborhood
by making Cesar Chavez Street a destination, rather than a
divide;
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Improve the
area’s natural ecology
by integrating stormwater design elements into the street;
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Improve
bicycle connections and safety
in both directions;
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Ensure that
traffic doesn’t spill over
into
surrounding neighborhoods.
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UPDATE:
A preferred alternative has been selected
by the community and the City. This option, known as the "Median
Option," consists generally of a
widened median with trees and landscaping, large corner curb
extensions, shorter pedestrian crossings, dedicated left-turn
pockets for cars, and green stormwater improvements. *** |
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Process and Timeline |
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A series
of public workshops will help develop a vision and a final design
for the corridor by Spring 2009. This design will consider,
complement, and guide, where appropriate, existing planning and
capital projects underway for Cesar Chavez Street, including:
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A sewer
replacement project on Cesar Chavez, managed by the
Public Utilities Commission (PUC);
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Traffic
calming projects in the Southeast Mission and Bernal Heights
neighborhoods, managed by the Municipal Transportation Agency
(MTA);
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A Safe
Routes to School grant to install crossing improvements adjacent
to Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School;
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The San
Francisco Bicycle Plan, which suggests bicycle facility
enhancements along Cesar Chavez, managed by the
Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA)
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Get Involved! |
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There will be numerous opportunities to get involved in the
development of the Cesar Chavez Street Design Plan.
Cesar Chavez Design Workshop #3
Tuesday, February 24, from 6:30 - 7:45pm
Leonard Flynn Elementary School, Auditorium
3125 Cesar Chavez Street
(see results from our first and second public workshops below)
To be added to the mailing list to be kept informed of upcoming
workshops and events, please send an email to
cesarchavez@sfgov.org.
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Materials |
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Presentations & Project
Materials:
Contact 
Questions, comments, and suggestions on this planning effort
should be directed to:
Andres Power, Project Manager
San Francisco Planning Department
1650 Mission Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
Email:
Andres.Power@sfgov.org
Telephone: (415) 558-6384
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Workshop
#2 Presentation Materials
  Workshop Presentation
Part 1: Existing Conditions - 
18 MB
Part 2: Process -
800
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Part 3: Timeline and Design Options -
9.5 MB
Design Options
(Boards)
Option 1: Center Median Option -
2.5 MB
Option 2: Boulevard Option -
2.5 MB
Option 3: Widened Sidewalk Option-
4 MB
Comparison
of Options -
800
KB
Cesar
Chavez at Mission Street -
11 MB
Cesar Chavez at Bryant Street -
2 MB
Workshop Comment
Summary -
350
KB
Workshop
#1 Presentation Materials
Workshop Results - 3 MB
Workshop Presentation - 6.8 MB
Links:
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