Category Archives: Better Neighborhoods

Thumbs Up For Market-Octavia and 55 Laguna

14 April 2008 – 12:58 pm

A busy week prevented me from posting about this earlier, but better late than never: as you may have already read in the Chronicle, there have been favorable updates at the Board of Supervisors concerning the Market & Octavia Plan, which I addressed in a post a couple weeks ago. Supervisors Mirkarimi and McGoldrick had [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Affordable Housing, Historic Preservation, Market-Octavia / Hayes Valley, NIMBY, Parking, Public Spaces / Parks, San Francisco, Streetscape, Zoning | Comments (0)

Market-Octavia: Building a Vibrant Hub

31 March 2008 – 8:09 am

Courtesy Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects, Inc.

For several years, the City of San Francisco has worked to develop the Market & Octavia Neighborhood Plan, studying neighborhoods centered on the pivotal intersection of Market and Octavia, bookended by Church Street on the west and Van Ness Avenue on the east. The plan was one part of [...]

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