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DTN |
Downtown | |
| DTN.INT | Introduction | |
| DTN.COM | Space for Commerce | |
| MANAGE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CHANGE TO ENSURE ENHANCEMENT OF THE TOTAL CITY LIVING AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT. | ||
| Improve the relationship between housing and industry... | ||
| DTN.OFS | Office Space | |
| DTN.OFS.2 | MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE SAN FRANCISCO'S POSITION AS A PRIME LOCATION FOR FINANCIAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, CORPORATE, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY. | |
| DTN.OFS.2.1 | Encourage prime downtown office activities to grow as long as undesirable consequences of such growth can be controlled. | |
| DTN.OFS.2.2 | Guide location of office development to maintain a compact downtown core and minimize displacement of other uses. | |
| DTN.RS | Retail Space | |
| DTN.RS.3 | IMPROVE DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO'S POSITION AS THE REGION'S PRIME LOCATION FOR SPECIALIZED RETAIL TRADE. | |
| DTN.RS.3.1 | Maintain high quality, specialty retail shopping facilities in the retail core. | |
| DTN.RS.3.2 | Encourage the retail businesses which serve the shopping needs of less affluent downtown workers and local residents. | |
| DTN.RS.3.3 | Preserve retail service businesses in upper floor offices in the retail district. | |
| DTN.RS.3.4 | Limit the amount of downtown retail space outside the retail district to avoid detracting from its economic vitality. | |
| DTN.RS.3.5 | Meet the convenience needs of daytime downtown workers. | |
| DTN.HS | Hotel Space | |
| DTN.HS.4 | ENHANCE SAN FRANCISCO'S ROLE AS A TOURIST AND VISITOR CENTER. | |
| DTN.HS.4.1 | Guide the location of new hotels to minimize their adverse impacts on circulation, existing uses, and scale of development. | |
| DTN.SCS | Support Commercial Space | |
| DTN.SCS.5 | RETAIN A DIVERSE BASE OF SUPPORT COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN AND NEAR DOWNTOWN. | |
| DTN.SCS.5.1 | Provide space for support commercial activities within the downtown and in adjacent areas. | |
| DTN.LDC | Location and Density of Commercial Space | |
| DTN.LDC.6 | WITHIN ACCEPTABLE LEVELS OF DENSITY, PROVIDE SPACE FOR FUTURE OFFICE, RETAIL, HOTEL, SERVICE AND RELATED USES IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO. | |
| DTN.LDC.6.1 | Adopt a downtown land use and density plan which establishes subareas of downtown with individualized controls to guide the density and location of permitted land use. | |
| DTN.HOU | Space for Housing | |
| DTN.HOU.7 | EXPAND THE SUPPLY OF HOUSING IN AND ADJACENT TO DOWNTOWN. | |
| DTN.HOU.7.1 | Promote the inclusion of housing in downtown commercial developments. | |
| DTN.HOU.7.2 | Facilitate conversion of underused industrial and commercial areas to residential use. | |
| DTN.HOU.8 | PROTECT RESIDENTIAL USES IN AND ADJACENT TO DOWNTOWN FROM ENCROACHMENT BY COMMERCIAL USES. | |
| DTN.HOU.8.1 | Restrict the demolition and conversion of housing in commercial areas. | |
| DTN.HOU.8.2 | Preserve existing residential hotels. | |
| DTN.OSP | Open Space | |
| DTN.OSP.9 | PROVIDE QUALITY OPEN SPACE IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITY AND VARIETY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF DOWNTOWN WORKERS, RESIDENTS, AND VISITORS. | |
| DTN.OSP.9.1 | Require usable indoor and outdoor open space, accessible to the public, as part of new downtown development. | |
| DTN.OSP.9.2 | Provide different kinds of open space downtown. | |
| DTN.OSP.9.3 | Give priority to development of two categories of highly valued open space; sunlit plazas and parks. | |
| DTN.OSP.9.4 | Provide a variety of seating arrangements in open spaces throughout downtown. | |
| DTN.OSP.9.5 | Improve the usefulness of publicly owned rights-of-way as open space. | |
| DTN.OSP.10 | ASSURE THAT OPEN SPACES ARE ACCESSIBLE AND USABLE. | |
| DTN.OSP.10.1 | Develop an open space system that gives every person living and working downtown access to a sizable sunlit open space within convenient walking distance. | |
| DTN.OSP.10.2 | Encourage the creation of new open spaces that become a part of an interconnected pedestrian network. | |
| DTN.OSP.10.3 | Keep open space facilities available to the public. | |
| DTN.OSP.10.4 | Provide open space that is clearly visible and easily reached from the street or pedestrian way. | |
| DTN.OSP.10.5 | Address the need for human comfort in the design of open spaces by minimizing wind and maximizing sunshine. | |
| DTN.OSP.11 | PROVIDE CONTRAST AND FORM BY CONSCIOUSLY TREATING OPEN SPACE AS A COUNTERPOINT TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. | |
| DTN.OSP.11.1 | Place and arrange open space to complement and structure the urban form by creating distinct openings in the otherwise dominant streetwall form of downtown. | |
| DTN.OSP.11.2 | Introduce elements of the natural environment in open space to contrast with the built-up environment. | |
| DTN.PRE | Preserving the Past | |
| DTN.PRE.12 | CONSERVE RESOURCES THAT PROVIDE CONTINUITY WITH SAN FRANCISCO'S PAST. | |
| DTN.PRE.12.1 | Preserve notable landmarks and areas of historic, architectural, or aesthetic value... | |
| DTN.PRE.12.2 | Use care in remodeling significant older buildings to enhance rather than weaken their original character. | |
| DTN.PRE.12.3 | Design new buildings to respect the character of older development nearby. | |
| DTN.URB | Urban Form | |
| DTN.HB | Height and Bulk | |
| DTN.HB.13 | CREATE AN URBAN FORM FOR DOWNTOWN THAT ENHANCES SAN FRANCISCO'S STATURE AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST VISUALLY ATTRACTIVE CITIES. | |
| DTN.HB.13.1 | Relate the height of buildings to important attributes of the city pattern and to the height and character of existing and proposed development. | |
| DTN.HB.13.2 | Foster sculpturing of building form to create less overpowering buildings and more interesting building tops, particularly the tops of towers. | |
| DTN.HB.13.3 | Create visually interesting terminations to building towers. | |
| DTN.HB.13.4 | Maintain separation between buildings to preserve light and air and prevent excessive bulk. | |
| DTN.SW | Sunlight and Wind | |
| DTN.SW.14 | CREATE AND MAINTAIN A COMFORTABLE PEDESTRIAN ENVIRONMENT. | |
| DTN.SW.14.1 | Promote building forms that will maximize the sun access to open spaces and other public areas. | |
| DTN.SW.14.2 | Promote building forms that will minimize the creation of surface winds near the base of buildings. | |
| DTN.BA | Building Appearance | |
| DTN.BA.15 | CREATE A BUILDING FORM THAT IS VISUALLY INTERESTING AND HARMONIZES WITH SURROUNDING BUILDINGS. | |
| DTN.BA.15.1 | Ensure that new facades relate harmoniously with nearby facade patterns. | |
| DTN.BA.15.2 | Assure that new buildings contribute to the visual unity of the city. | |
| DTN.BA.15.3 | Encourage more variation in building facades and greater harmony with older buildings through use of architectural embellishments and bay or recessed windows. | |
| DTN.SSC | Streetscape | |
| DTN.SSC.16 | CREATE AND MAINTAIN ATTRACTIVE, INTERESTING URBAN STREETSCAPES | |
| DTN.SSC.16.1 | Conserve the traditional street to building relationship that characterizes downtown San Francisco. | |
| DTN.SSC.16.2 | Provide setbacks above a building base to maintain the continuity of the predominant streetwalls along the street. | |
| DTN.SSC.16.3 | Maintain and enhance the traditional downtown street pattern of projecting cornices on smaller buildings and projecting belt courses of taller buildings. | |
| DTN.SSC.16.4 | Use designs and materials and include activities at the ground floor to create pedestrian interest. | |
| DTN.SSC.16.5 | Encourage the incorporation of publicly visible art works in new private development and in various public spaces downtown. | |
| DTN.MOV | Moving About | |
| DTN.MOV.17 | DEVELOP TRANSIT AS THE PRIMARY MODE OF TRAVEL TO AND FROM DOWNTOWN. | |
| DTN.MOV.17.1 | Build and maintain rapid transit lines from downtown to all suburban corridors and major centers of activity in San Francisco. | |
| DTN.MOV.17.2 | Expand existing non-rail transit service to downtown. | |
| DTN.MOV.17.3 | Establish exclusive transit lanes on bridges, freeways and city streets where significant transit service exists. | |
| DTN.MOV.17.4 | Coordinate regional and local transportation systems and provide for interline transit transfers. | |
| DTN.MOV.17.5 | Provide for commuter bus loading at off-street terminals and at special curbside loading areas at non-congested locations. | |
| DTN.MOV.17.6 | Make convenient transfers possible by establishing common or closely located terminals for local and regional transit systems. | |
| DTN.MOV.17.7 | Continue ferries and other forms of water-based transportation as an alternative method of travel between San Francisco and the other communities along the Bay... | |
| DTN.MOV.18 | ENSURE THAT THE NUMBER OF AUTO TRIPS TO AND FROM DOWNTOWN WILL NOT BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE GROWTH OR AMENITY OF DOWNTOWN. | |
| DTN.MOV.18.1 | Do not increase (and where possible reduce) the existing automobile capacity of the bridges, highways and freeways entering the city. | |
| DTN.MOV.18.2 | Provide incentives for the use of transit, carpools and vanpools, and reduce the need for new or expanded automobile parking facilities. | |
| DTN.MOV.18.3 | Discourage new long-term commuter parking spaces in and around downtown. Limit long-term parking spaces serving downtown to the number that already exists. | |
| DTN.MOV.18.4 | Locate any new long-term parking structures in areas peripheral to downtown... | |
| DTN.MOV.18.5 | Discourage proliferation of surface parking as an interim land use, particularly where sound residential, commercial or industrial buildings would be demolished. | |
| DTN.MOV.19 | PROVIDE FOR SAFE AND CONVENIENT BICYCLE USE AS A MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION. | |
| DTN.MOV.19.1 | Include facilities for bicycle users in governmental, commercial, and residential developments. | |
| DTN.MOV.19.2 | Accommodate bicycles on regional transit facilities and important regional transportation links. | |
| DTN.MOV.19.3 | Provide adequate and secure bicycle parking at transit terminals. | |
| DTN.MOV.20 | PROVIDE FOR THE EFFICIENT, CONVENIENT AND COMFORTABLE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND GOODS, TRANSIT VEHICLES AND AUTOMOBILES WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN. | |
| DTN.MOV.20.1 | Develop the downtown core as an automobile control area. | |
| DTN.MOV.20.2 | Organize and control traffic circulation to reduce congestion in the core caused by through traffic and to channel vehicles into peripheral parking facilities. | |
| DTN.MOV.20.3 | Locate drive-in, automobile-oriented, quick-stop and other auto-oriented uses on sites outside the office retail, and general commercial districts of downtown. | |
| DTN.MOV.20.4 | Improve speed of transit travel and service by giving priority to transit vehicles where conflicts with auto traffic occur, and by establishing a transit preferential streets system. | |
| DTN.MOV.20.5 | Develop shuttle transit systems to supplement trunk lines for travel within the greater downtown area. | |
| DTN.MOV.20.6 | Maintain a taxi service adequate to meet the needs of the city and to keep far as reasonable. | |
| DTN.MOV.20.7 | Encourage short-term use of existing parking spaces within and adjacent to the downtown core... | |
| DTN.MOV.20.8 | Make existing and new accessory parking available to the general public for evening and weekend use. | |
| DTN.MOV.21 | IMPROVE FACILITIES FOR FREIGHT DELIVERIES AND BUSINESS SERVICES. | |
| DTN.MOV.21.1 | Provide off-street facilities for freight loading and service vehicles on the site of new buildings... | |
| DTN.MOV.21.2 | Discourage access to off-street freight loading and service vehicle facilities from transit preferential streets, or pedestrian-oriented streets and alleys. | |
| DTN.MOV.21.3 | Encourage consolidation of freight deliveries and night-time deliveries to produce greater efficiency and reduce congestion. | |
| DTN.MOV.21.4 | Provide limited loading spaces on street to meet the need for peak period or short-term small deliveries and essential services, and strictly enforce their use. | |
| DTN.MOV.21.5 | Require large new hotels to provide off-street passenger loading and unloading of tour buses. | |
| DTN.MOV.22 | IMPLEMENT A DOWNTOWN STREETSCAPE PLAN TO IMPROVE THE DOWNTOWN PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION SYSTEM... | |
| DTN.MOV.22.1 | Provide sufficient pedestrian movement space. | |
| DTN.MOV.22.2 | Through the development of streetscape standards and guidelines, minimize obstructions to through pedestrian movement on sidewalks in the downtown core. | |
| DTN.MOV.22.3 | Ensure convenient and safe pedestrian crossings. | |
| DTN.MOV.22.4 | Create a pedestrian network in the downtown core area that includes streets devoted to or primarily oriented to pedestrian use. | |
| DTN.MOV.22.5 | Improve the ambience of the pedestrian environment. | |
| DTN.MOV.22.6 | Future decisions about street space, both in this plan and beyond, should give equal, if not greater, consideration to pedestrian needs. | |
| DTN.SEI | Seismic Safety | |
| DTN.SEI.23 | REDUCE HAZARDS TO LIFE SAFETY AND MINIMIZE PROPERTY DAMAGE AND ECONOMIC DISLOCATION RESULTING FROM FUTURE EARTHQUAKES | |
| DTN.SEI.23.1 | Apply a minimum level of acceptable risk to structures and uses of land based upon the nature of the use... | |
| DTN.SEI.23.2 | Initiate orderly abatement of hazards from existing buildings and structures, while preserving the architectural design character of important buildings. | |
| Require geologic or soil engineering site investigation and compensating structural design based on findings for all new structures in special geologic study areas. | ||
| DTN.SEI.23.4 | Review and amend at regular intervals all relevant public codes to incorporate the most current knowledge and highest standards of seismic design... | |
| DTN.PNC | Pedestrian Network Classification of Elements | |
| DTN.PDP | Fundamental Principles for the Downtown Pedestrian Network | |