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McLaren Park - Pedestrian, Bike and Streetscape Projects

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McLaren park satellite image shown with yellow and green lines indicating possible improvement areas

The McLaren Park Pedestrian, Bike and Streetscape Projects is an effort to improve safety for people walking, biking, taking transit and driving on McLaren Park’s streets and wide pathways, including:

The initial effort will concentrate on Visitac ión Avenue, which will bring a variety of improvements to the corridor including new sidewalks, new bikeways, new paving, and traffic calming, as well as opportunities for a new crosswalk, new landscaping, and lighting.

Visitación Avenue is a critical road to access McLaren Park from the south, but also a connector to Visitación Valley Middle School, and between the Visitación Valley, Portola, and Excelsior neighborhoods. Although the roadway has low vehicle traffic volumes, it has higher speed traffic, and lacks a sidewalk on its lower portion – a critical link between the Sunnydale and Visitación Valley communities to the middle school.

In 2018, the McLaren Park Vision Plan and the Visitación Valley Impact District called for redesigning the roadway to create pedestrian and bike access along the corridor. The crosswalk at Visitacion Valley Middle School has now been installed. The Recreation and Park Department was awarded a grant to fund the planning effort in this corridor, which will also coordinate with other projects in the area, as well as seek a capital funding source to implement the improvements that will come out of this effort.

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Contact Us

  1. Lauren Dietrich Chavez

Project Manager Email Phone: 1-628-652-6643 More Information

  1. Brian Stokle

Planner brian.stokle@sfgov.org Phone: (415) 370-5982 (primary) More Information