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Committee sends Vision Zero general plan amendments to full board after outreach concerns
Summary
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted to send an ordinance to the full Board that would amend San Francisco’s general plan to incorporate Vision Zero pedestrian‑safety objectives; supervisors and public commenters urged clearer language on active community participation, especially for Chinatown.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on [date not specified in the transcript] voted to forward an ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors that would amend the transportation and urban design elements of the city’s general plan to reflect the city’s Vision Zero pedestrian‑safety policy.
Planning Department staffer Lily Lailois presented the ordinance, telling the committee the proposal adds a Vision Zero‑specific objective and updates policy language to emphasize a multidisciplinary approach to pedestrian safety — engineering measures, targeted enforcement, and education campaigns — and updates the pedestrian network and map of key walking streets. Lailois said the Planning Commission initiated changes in July and recommended approval in October and that these amendments are intended to ensure consistency between development consistency findings and city street proposals.
Supervisor Erin Peskin said she supports the policy but raised concerns that the draft deletes some geographically specific language and that long‑established community organizations — especially those in Chinatown — were not specifically outreached. Peskin said community members asked for explicit language requiring active, meaningful consultation on sensitive street projects such as Lower Stockton reopening or sidewalk widening along Stockton Street and suggested pursuing a trailing amendment after public comment to add participatory language if such language is not present elsewhere in the general plan.
Phil Chin of the Chinatown Community Development Center and related neighborhood groups testified in public comment urging the committee to adopt language that ensures community participation in pedestrian‑safety projects, citing prior experience working with SFMTA and neighborhood concerns.
After discussion, Supervisor Peskin moved to forward the ordinance to the full board with a committee report that would coordinate possible trailing language addressing community participation; the motion passed without objection.
The full Board will receive the ordinance and any committee report or trailing amendment as part of the January 24 Board of Supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated.
