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Planning Commission adopts rules to make privately owned public open spaces easier to find

San Francisco Planning Commission · June 7, 2012
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Summary

The Planning Commission approved an ordinance and related staff recommendations to standardize signage and wayfinding for Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS), move design standards to a zoning administrator bulletin, and require compliance for certain existing POPOS within one year; the vote was unanimous.

The San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved changes to city rules governing Privately Owned Public Open Spaces, seeking to make plazas, terraces and interior publicly accessible spaces easier for the public to find and to standardize maintenance and signage.

Planning staff described widespread problems with existing POPOS plaques — small sizes, poor placement, low contrast and inconsistent content — and recommended moving detailed graphic and dimensional standards into a zoning…

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