Pedestrian Safety and Livable Communities

Pedestrian safety and the smart neighborhood planning are key components of my quality-of-life program. I will work hard to make sure our communities and neighborhood business districts are truly livable and desirable in terms of safety, beauty and walkability.

PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN
I will make it a top priority to require that our city create a Pedestrian Master Plan as an element of the City’s General Plan. Components of that plan are likely to include:

o Institute additional Pedestrian head start signal configurations at key intersections.

o Striping crosswalks and adding additional signage at all intersections within a 1/2 mile of schools, day care centers, and senior centers.

o Increasing funding for sidewalk widening and the construction of special bulb-outs to increase pedestrian safety at key intersections as well as to facilitate more efficient boarding of MUNI buses.

o Improving enforcement of local laws that prohibit using sidewalks for parking motor vehicles.

o Selectively reducing the number of parking spaces at street corners in order to improve the visibility of pedestrians who are trying to cross the street.

o Making sure all our crosswalks at traffic lights have well-light countdown crossing signals.

o Reduce the speed limit on 19th Avenue as allowed by state law.

o Increasing crossing time at key intersections so our seniors and others with mobility problems will be able to cross the street safely.

I also intend to craft a local safe-routes-to-school ordinance that sets priorities for neighborhoods that have elementary or middle schools so children will be able to walk or ride their bike safely.

BEAUTIFUL STREETS
To improve neighborhood pride, we need to make our streets beautiful and safe by:
o Planting more trees
o Keeping our streets and sidewalks clean
o Improving street lighting in our parks and throughout our neighborhoods

I propose that we create a “Street Beautification” program that involves additional tree plantings along with stepped up maintenance and street cleanings. This would apply to residential streets in the neighborhoods as well as selected high-traffic boulevards.

NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING
We need a more collaborative process where the Planning Department does a better job in reaching out to neighborhood residents earlier and in a more genuine fashion.

I plan to introduce an ordinance that will require selected departments to coordinating planning decisions regarding traffic, transit, infrastructure, land use planning and housing developments. All too often there is only minimal coordination and long-term planning and I intend to work with the Mayor’s office to fix that.

DAN KALB
The Experienced Leader We Need to Make
City Government Work Better for
District 5 Residents and All San Franciscans

DAN KALB for Supervisor 5
912 Cole Street, #252, San Francisco, CA 94117
415/753-0137
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