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Third and Final Upper Market Workshop Reviews
Community Input From Previous Meetings
The Third Upper Market workshop took place on Dec. 10 at the Harvey Milk School. Heidi Sokolowsky (left), who has submitted a plan to redesign Harvey Milk Plaza, stands next to an unidentified workshop attendee. On Dec. 10, the third of three community workshops meant to include community input towards creating a vision for the Upper Market/Castro neighborhood took place at the Harvey Milk School.
Attended by roughly 80 people, attendees broke up into small groups just as in prior workshops.
Instead of brainstorming ideas for community design, however, the groups met to review and affirm the design framework that was drafted from input from the first two community meetings. The stated goal of the third meeting was to apply this vision to proposed development sites.
According to the SF Planning Commission’s Web site for the Upper Market Workshop Series, workshop attendees created a list of public realm improvements for the area.
Some of the most important items on the list were to improve pedestrian crossings on Market Street, and create more open space in the Upper Market area including a community gathering place at Castro and Market streets. Another recommendation was to install more natural landscaping on sidewalks and on center meridians.
The public realm improvement listed as most important was to “encourage socially-engaging use of sidewalks by adjacent businesses for flexible seating, landscaping, display of goods in the building zone and curb zone.”
The project is being conducted by the SF Planning Commission with assistance from a consultant team, Moore Iacofano Goltsman (MIG), along with Seifel Consulting.
According to the Planning Commission Web site, Phase III of the plan, which calls for recommendations and plan approval, will begin this year.
During this phase, a community open house where the public can review the draft plan will occur.
For more information, visit uppermarket.sfplanning.org.
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