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Cesar Chavez Street Design
*project update coming soon.

The Cesar Chavez Street Design Plan is a detailed design effort to
re-envision Cesar Chavez Street from Hampshire to Guerrero Streets in the Mission District. The outreach and design process will identify ways to make Cesar Chavez Street a safe, pleasant, and attractive corridor for people, bikes, and transit that unifies, rather than divides, the neighborhood.

For information about other street design projects in the Mission District, see the Mission Streetscape Plan.

Cesar Chavez Street
About the Project

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This design process will coordinate the efforts of the many different City agencies with planned or approved projects along the Cesar Chavez Street corridor to ensure that a safe, gracious, inviting, and ecologically sustainable Cesar Chavez Street emerges as a focal point for one of San Francisco’s most cherished neighborhoods.

The project's goals are to:

  • Make Cesar Chavez Street a safer place for people by improving crossings, widening sidewalks, and enhancing lighting;

  • Redesign Cesar Chavez Street with high quality landscaping, gracious trees, pedestrian lighting, and other design treatments;

  • Reconnect the neighborhood by making Cesar Chavez Street a destination, rather than a divide;

  • Improve the area’s natural ecology by integrating stormwater design elements into the street;

  • Improve bicycle connections and safety in both directions;

  • Ensure that traffic doesn’t spill over into surrounding neighborhoods.

*** UPDATE: A preferred alternative has been selected by the community and the City. This option, known as the "Median Option," consists generally of a widened median with trees and landscaping, large corner curb extensions, shorter pedestrian crossings, dedicated left-turn pockets for cars, and green stormwater improvements. ***

 
Process and Timeline

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 A series of public workshops will help develop a vision and a final design for the corridor by Spring 2009. This design will consider, complement, and guide, where appropriate, existing planning and capital projects underway for Cesar Chavez Street, including:

  • A sewer replacement project on Cesar Chavez, managed by the
    Public Utilities Commission (PUC);

  • Traffic calming projects in the Southeast Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, managed by the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA);

  • A Safe Routes to School grant to install crossing improvements adjacent to Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School;

  • The San Francisco Bicycle Plan, which suggests bicycle facility enhancements along Cesar Chavez, managed by the
    Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA)

 
Get Involved!

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There will be numerous opportunities to get involved in the development of the Cesar Chavez Street Design Plan.

Cesar Chavez Design Workshop #3
Tuesday, February 24, from 6:30 - 7:45pm
Leonard Flynn Elementary School, Auditorium
3125 Cesar Chavez Street
(see results from our first and second public workshops below)

To be added to the mailing list to be kept informed of upcoming workshops and events, please send an email to cesarchavez@sfgov.org.

Materials

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Presentations & Project Materials:

Contact contact
Questions, comments, and suggestions on this planning effort should be directed to:

Andres Power, Project Manager
San Francisco Planning Department
1650 Mission Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103

Email: Andres.Power@sfgov.org
Telephone: (415) 558-6384

Workshop #2 Presentation Materials
Workshop Presentation
Part 1: Existing Conditions - PDF 18 MB
Part 2: Process - PDF
Part 3: Timeline and Design Options - PDF 9.5 MB

Design Options (Boards)
Option 1: Center Median Option - PDF 2.5 MB
Option 2: Boulevard Option - PDF 2.5 MB
Option 3: Widened Sidewalk Option - PDF 4 MB
Comparison of Options - PDF
Cesar Chavez at Mission Street - PDF 11 MB
Cesar Chavez at Bryant Street - PDF 2 MB

Workshop Comment Summary - PDF


Workshop #1 Presentation Materials

Workshop Results - PDF 3 MB

Workshop Presentation - PDF 6.8 MB


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