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Mayor Lee tells supervisors city must coordinate street furniture to ease sidewalk congestion
Summary
At Board of Supervisors question time, Mayor Edwin Lee told the board that San Francisco's sidewalks are a limited public resource and urged stronger interdepartmental coordination — including legislation to create a street design review committee — to reduce sidewalk clutter from furniture, utility boxes, kiosks and other fixtures.
Mayor Edwin Lee told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 7 that the city must coordinate placement of street furniture and right-of-way fixtures to reduce pedestrian congestion and enhance safety.
Supervisor Scott Wiener (District 8) asked the mayor what the city would do to limit sidewalk bottlenecks caused by surface-mounted utility boxes, bike racks, bus shelters, advertising kiosks and public toilets, and how that work would fit with the…
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