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Mission-Geneva Neighborhood Transportation Plan

San Francisco, California

San Francisco County Transportation Authority

Subconsultant to Nelson\Nygaard

2005-2007

Community Design + Architecture worked with transportation consultants Nelson\Nygaard and Fehr and Peers to develop new streetscape designs for two major neighborhood arterial streets in San Francisco’s Excelsior District. Mission Street is a neighborhood commercial corridor at the center of this mixed-income neighborhood and Geneva Avenue is a residential corridor connecting several neighborhoods and a major access route to the Balboa BART and MUNI stations.

The project involved a walking tour and formal assessment of the existing pedestrian and streetscape character and conditions, which informed the designs for these streets. Later analysis and design included the consideration of transportation needs, urban forestry, development of a conceptual lighting plan, and a more focused study of the triangular block at the intersection of Mission Street and Ocean Avenue, both significant neighborhood-oriented commercial streets. The Persia triangle, as this block is known, provided a significant opportunity for place-making at the nexus of a number of major transit routes and neighborhood activity centers.

Community Design + Architecture’s final recommendations focused on improved pedestrian safety and aesthetics and included new streetscape amenities, street trees, and pedestrian-scale lighting. Recommendations for the Persia Triangle included the addition of pedestrian-scale lighting, bollards, transit bulbouts, new street trees, and the buffering of parking lots and auto-oriented land uses with landscaping, low walls and trellises.