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City staff outlines multi-year plan, Arches platform and phased approach for citywide cultural-resources survey
Summary
Planning department staff presented a multi-year citywide cultural-resources survey using the Arches platform, estimating 31,000 properties already surveyed and 80,000–100,000 properties yet to be reviewed; commissioners and public pressed for faster staffing and funding amid concerns about pending state housing legislation.
San Francisco planning department staff delivered an informational briefing on Feb. 6 outlining a proposed multi-year, context-based citywide cultural-resources survey and the department’s plan to use the Arches open-source platform for data collection and management.
Staff said the city has roughly 31,000 properties documented to date and that, after filtering duplicates, post-1974 buildings and vacant parcels, the department estimates about 80,000–100,000 properties may remain to be surveyed. The presenter explained the department chose Arches — developed with technical support from the Getty Conservation Institute and Farallon Geographics — because it supports geospatial inventorying and linking legacy documentation. Staff described a Haight-Ashbury pilot in summer 2018 that collected field data on approximately 800 properties and…
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