Hayes Valley “Living Alley” Open House | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Come by the Hayes Valley “Living Alley” Open House to get an understanding of the design elements and processes involved in creating your own living alley. The SF Planning Department, Caltrans, SFMTA, and SF Public Works will unveil the Market Octavia Living Alley Toolkit with a short presentation and copies of the toolkit from 6-7:30 pm on February 25, 2015.

Light snacks will be provided. After the presentation, we’ll be on hand to answer any questions you might have. The San Francisco Planning Department City Design Group is initiating a two-year community-based program to design and implement a network of Living Alleys in the Market Octavia Plan Area.

What is a “Living Alley”?

A Living Alley may be defined as a narrow, low-volume traffic street that is designed to focus on livability, instead of parking and traffic. Typically, this means creating a street primarily for pedestrians and bicyclists as well as space for social uses. Vehicles are typically still allowed access but with reduced speeds.

The Market Octavia Plan identified alley improvements as a means of creating shared multipurpose public spaces – traffic calmed environments that contrast the heavy traffic on the surrounding arterial streets. The plan also called for the development of prototypes and a process where residents can participate in the design and implementation of improvements to their alley.

The Market and Octavia Living Alley Project will take advantage of underutilized alleys to provide pedestrians with a respite from heavy urban and regional traffic to create a secondary pedestrian network in the Market and Octavia neighborhood.

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