Castro Street is set for a major overhaul as we've posted on several occasions in the past months.
The deadline for community input nears on Monday, Feb. 11th. There's still a window of opportunity for those with an opinion to send in your ideas that will help reshape the future of the street and the neighborhood.
The SF Planning Dept. has a two page form that you need to follow and fill out to have your vision of improvements added to all the input they've already received online and at the large, community meeting held last month.
Many Ideas are being considered as the sidewalks are widened to allow better flow of foot traffic. Parklettes on the main strip like the one in front of the now shuttered Dancing Pig BBQ restaurant. Utilizing bus stops on 18th street to allow for extra parking that will make up for lost spaces on Castro between Market and 19th St. Defining existing lanes from one large right of way into two distinct lanes. Better movement of MUNI busses. 'Scramble' crosswalks where all pedestrians/all corners cross at the same time like seen at several SoMa street corner locations. Plus many, many others.
Public survey responses will be looked at and added into the grand total of citizen opinions and used to determine those various design features included in the $4 million project
The final design plan for the street is expected to come by May of 2013. Construction would start in January of 2014 and be done in phases to keep business and life on the street from being thrown into utter chaos.
Completion is targeted for October of 2014 with a ribbon cutting ceremony to coincide with the neighborhood's annual Castro Street Fair.
Want more info on the Castro Street Design project? Visit the website here.
