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Planning staff lays out Eastern Neighborhoods plan; residents and businesses press feasibility and displacement concerns
Summary
At a long workshop, Planning Department staff presented built‑form, open‑space, transportation, community‑facilities, historic‑resources and implementation proposals for the Eastern Neighborhoods. Public commenters raised feasibility, displacement, PDR definition, notice and funding‑gap concerns; the Commission and staff agreed additional targeted analysis and outreach are needed.
Planning staff delivered an extensive workshop on the Eastern Neighborhoods area plans, covering goals for built form, public realm, open space, transportation, community facilities, preservation policy, and a draft implementation and funding approach.
Staff described major plan ideas: an aspirational target of acquiring about one park per neighborhood (priority acquisition zones identified on conceptual maps), public‑realm improvements (green connectors, boulevards, living streets and targeted alley upgrades), transit and pedestrian corridors (Sixteenth Street as a key east‑west connector, transit preferential streets and proposed E Line historic‑streetcar extension), and built‑form tools aimed at breaking up very large parcels (mid‑block passages, alley‑sensitive massing controls, and a “San Francisco green…
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