(I’d throw in a few widely spaced 20- to 30-story towers, but I don’t think this will fly with the neighbors.)Īll residential buildings should be clustered to allow for abundant parks, gardens, playgrounds, walkways, and other public amenities. Housing must be dense (no detached single-family dwellings allowed!) and consist of low and midrise condo and rental buildings, and a mix of market-rate and affordable units, the former subsidizing the latter as it does elsewhere in the city.
Three main things: housing, greenery, and public transportation. So what to do with the new land? It could be as much as 33 acres, minus the cross streets running through to maintain the Richmond grid.
#Bay to breakers traffic detours full#
Undergrounding Park Presidio Boulevard opens up seven long blocks of land, nearly a full mile, from Lake Street in the north to Fulton Street in the south and between 14th Avenue and Funston Avenue - even more if the project continues and the odious Crossover Drive, which snakes through Golden Gate Park from Fulton to Lincoln Boulevard, is forever buried too. As a cut-and-cover project, this part of my proposal can be done for a fraction of the cost of underground boring, the method used for the Central Subway now under construction.Ĭompletely rethink the surface.
Presto! A lot of precious and valuable land suddenly becomes available on top for other purposes.
In stages organized to minimize disruption, dig a trench, drop precast tunnel sections into it complete with traffic lanes and emergency shoulders, limited entrances and exits, signals and lighting, fans and exhaust portals - the whole shebang - and cover it up. Courtesy Eric Fischer via Creative Commons. The planning commission had plans in 1944.
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