City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett
Place
San Francisco, CA 94102-
4689
City and County of San Francisco
Legislation Details
File #:
Version:
1
130443
Name:
Formal Policy Discussions - May 21, 2013
Status:
Type:
Hearing
Filed
File created:
In control:
5/8/2013
Board of Supervisors
On agenda:
Final action:
5/21/2013
5/21/2013
Enactment date:
Enactment #:
Title:
Pursuant to Charter Sections 2.103 and 3.100(7), and Administrative Code, Section 2.11, the Mayor
shall answer the following eligible question submitted by Supervisor representing District 8. The
Mayor may address the Board initially for up to five minutes. Discussion shall not exceed five minutes
per Supervisor.
1. In many neighborhoods across the city, our sidewalks don't have the capacity to ensure safe and
comfortable pedestrian flow, which squeezes pedestrians into tight areas and forces people to step
onto the street. While infrastructure improvements like widening our sidewalks and creating bulb-outs
can dramatically alleviate pedestrian congestion issues, these improvements are expensive and
resources are limited. A less expensive solution is to improve placement of street furniture, such as
surface utility boxes, news racks, bus shelters, advertising kiosks, public toilets and other fixtures on
the sidewalk, which individually and in the aggregate impede pedestrian flow and restrict visibility of
pedestrians at corners. With so many pieces of sidewalk furniture competing for scarce sidewalk real
estate, how will you work with the various Departments that authorize placement of these items to
ensure that we are doing everything we can to create safe and comfortable sidewalks along our busy
streets? How will you ensure that the City is doing everything that it can to fix existing sidewalk
bottlenecks and hazardous pedestrian visibility conditions and ensure that we do not create new
ones? How will your Pedestrian Strategy, including the 5 miles per year program, address this
problem? (Supervisor Wiener, District 8)
Sponsors:
Attachments:
1. Board_Packet_052113
Action By
Date
Action
Result
Ver.
ASSIGNED
President
5/8/2013
1
HEARD AND FILED
Board of Supervisors
5/21/2013
1