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Mayor and supervisors celebrate new parklets and plazas; city to add more site conversions this year
Summary
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Sophie Maxwell celebrated newly completed plazas and announced plans to add parklets and small plazas across San Francisco, highlighting public-private partnerships and low-cost, community-led projects.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and city staff on Tuesday celebrated newly completed plazas created through the Pavement to Parks program and announced plans to expand the initiative with additional parklets and small plazas around the city.
At the ceremony the mayor said the program began modestly in the Castro and has grown into a broader effort to "democratize our streets," noting that streets occupy about "25% of the land mass of this city" and represent an opportunity to create more public space. Newsom said the city planned to add roughly a dozen more parklets and plazas by the end of the calendar year and described the projects as low-cost investments (typically a few…
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