Livable City

Programs: 2013 program accomplishment #1: sunday streets. Livable city (tlc) organized and operated san francisco's sunday streets program, which creates miles of safe, fun, car-free spaces where tens of thousands of people enjoyed healthy outdoor recreation, exercise, music, and community activities in san francisco neighborhoods. Livable city organized eight events in different san francisco neighborhoods, in partnership with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and numerous community and public agency partners. We also created four neighborhood play streets in 2013.

2013 program accomplishment #2: livable neighborhoods. Livable city's livable neighborhoods campaign fosters neighborhoods that are compact, mixed-use, diverse, healthy, green, accessible, affordable, and sustainable. Accomplishments in 2013 include reforming city policies to preserve tens of thousands of dwelling units, legalize new in-law units, and strengthen renter protections. We also worked with neighbors and city agencies to plan, fund, and build safer and greener streets, walking and cycling improvements, new waterfront open spaces, and neighborhood parks and plazas.

2013 program accomplishment #3: walk san francisco, through tlc's pedestrian fund, worked with community groups and city agencies to release the city's first-ever pedestrian strategy to cut pedestrian injuries and fatalities in half by 2021 and improve walkability. The plan encourages more walking and systematically improving the citys streets to favor safe, sustainable transportation. Walk san francisco led "walk to school day" in october with a record 70 schools and over 13,000 children participating. Walk san francisco also engaged in developing the green connections plan, which will be adopted by the city of san francisco in 2014, and will link people to parks through a network of green, traffic-calmed streets.