Priority Projects
Each priority project below is a community-identified "deep green" infrastructure project suitable for green infrastructure capital investment.
Cortland in Bloom
📍 Bernal Heights • Cortland Avenue
Beautifies Cortland Ave, Bernal Heights' business district, and helps keep neighbors safe by promoting daylighting of intersections through strategic placement of potted plants.
Green Cultural Zone
📍 Northern Mission District • American Indian Cultural District
A grassroots vision for neighborhood climate resilience in San Francisco's Northern Mission District, centering Native American and Latino communities in environmental justice through the creation of safe, green community spaces.
Cole Valley Town Square
📍 Cole Valley • Carl between Cole & Clayton
Transforming a successful pop-up urban forest experiment into a permanent community green space where the N Judah enters the tunnel, bringing nature to this dense neighborhood.
Wiggle Plaza
📍 Castro/Duboce • Steiner between Duboce & Waller
This project extends Duboce Park eastward, creating an accessible space for all ages and abilities while managing stormwater runoff from both Duboce Park and Buena Vista Park.
Treat Plaza North
📍 Mission District • 16th & Harrison @ Treat North
Transforming a contested sewer construction site into a vibrant community green space that demonstrates innovative stormwater management and creates a neighborhood gathering place.
Mistral Street Greening
📍 Mission District • Mistral between Treat & Harrison
Transforming a neglected one-way block near John O'Connell High School into a safe, green community space with improved pedestrian facilities, stormwater management, and opportunities for youth and community engagement.
Hayes Promenade
📍 Hayes Valley • Hayes between Octavia & Gough
Transforming a successful weekend street activation into a permanent green pedestrian plaza in the heart of Hayes Valley. Since 2020, Hayes Promenade has demonstrated what city streets can be: safe, vibrant, and people-centered spaces.
Carolina Triangle
📍 Showplace Square • Channel & Carolina Streets
Reclaiming an illegally occupied triangle of public right-of-way and transforming it into green infrastructure with neighborhood amenities for CCA students and the Showplace Square community.
Wolfe Plaza
📍 Showplace Square • 8th Street between Irwin & 16th Street
Transforming a former Streets to Parks site into a permanent green open space for residents, local businesses, and the CCA university campus nearby.
Cayuga / Alemany Greening
📍 Mission Terrace / Excelsior • Cayuga & Ocean/Santa Ynez
Rain gardens, new trees, and traffic calming at five Mission Terrace and Excelsior intersections through an SFMTA and SFPUC collaboration in the Upper Islais Creek watershed.
Bernal Cut / Arlington Greening
📍 Bernal Heights / Glen Park • Arlington Slow Street & Bernal Cut Corridor
Building on a decade of community stewardship to bring sidewalk rain gardens, street bulb-outs, and traffic calming to the Arlington Slow Street and Bernal Cut corridor in the Upper Islais Creek watershed.
Minnesota Slow Street Greening
📍 Dogpatch • Minnesota Street from Mariposa to 22nd
Transforming Dogpatch's beloved MinneSLOWta corridor into a lush community greenway with street trees, rain gardens, and community-art corners — maintained in partnership with the Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District.
Sanchez Greenway
📍 Noe Valley • Sanchez between 23rd & 30th
Gradually greening SF's highest-performing Slow Street — adding planters and sidewalk gardens near term, toward a long-term vision of a permanently green woonerf street across 14 blocks.
SFO Bay Trail Gap
📍 Millbrae • San Bruno Avenue to Millbrae Avenue
Closing a critical 3.2-mile gap in the San Francisco Bay Trail while creating opportunities for wetland restoration, flood control, and community access to natural open space.
Illinois Street Bay Trail Greening
📍 Dogpatch • Illinois Street from Mariposa to Cargo Way
Greening and safety improvements along the Illinois Street Bay Trail corridor — with street trees, native plantings, protected bike and pedestrian infrastructure, and a new pocket park on the PG&E parcel.
Sansome Plaza
📍 Financial District • Sansome between Sutter & Bush
Transforming the sunniest block in the Financial District into a vibrant green plaza at a nexus of transit, historic architecture, and daily pedestrian life.
Carolina Greenway
📍 Potrero Hill / Showplace Square • Carolina Street, Mariposa to 15th
A continuous green walking route from Potrero Hill to the Showplace Design District — linking Jackson Park, Live Oak School, and Potrero Hill Montessori with street trees, native plants, traffic calming, and bioswale stormwater infrastructure.
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