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Planning staff present 'Complete Neighborhoods' proposals for Eastern Neighborhoods
Summary
Planning Department staff outlined proposals to guide 7,500 new units in San Francisco’s Eastern Neighborhoods, emphasizing Transit First objectives, targeted open‑space acquisition, design controls and a funding gap between roughly $250 million in likely revenue and a $400 million program need.
San Francisco Planning Department staff on June 12, 2008 presented the "Complete Neighborhoods" chapter of the Eastern Neighborhoods area plans to the Planning Commission Committee, focusing on transportation, open space, historic preservation and design controls meant to support an estimated 7,500 new housing units across four subareas.
The presentation, led by Eastern Neighborhoods project manager Ken Rich and transit staff from the SFMTA, framed proposals around the city's Transit First policy and a policy-level vision that prioritizes public transit, walking and bicycling. Staff said they have a reasonably reliable revenue estimate of about $250,000,000 over 20 years but that the full program of transportation, open-space and other public benefits would cost roughly $400,000,000, leaving a gap staff said they would seek to close through additional funding strategies.
Why it matters: the plan rewrites land-use and design expectations across East SoMa, the Mission, Showplace Square/Potrero Hill and the…
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