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San Francisco Public Works is excited to announce our newest program: Love Our Neighborhoods.
Amid a citywide push to simplify permitting and cut red tape, Public Works is making it easier and cheaper than ever to spread joy, beauty and creativity in neighborhoods across San Francisco in ways big and small – from installing little libraries along sidewalks to creating decorative staircases.
The Love Our Neighborhoods program allows permitting and registration for a wide variety of beautification and improvement projects in the public right of way. These projects are divided into three tiers based on their complexity, size and cost.
| | Residents can now receive City approval for certain Love Our Neighborhoods projects by snapping a few photos, uploading them to our website and self-certifying that they follow Love Our Neighborhoods program regulations. These Tier 1 projects include benches, planters and little libraries located in front of a single property and within the public right of way. | | Tier 2 Love Our Neighborhoods projects are larger and incorporate more significant parts of the public right of way. These include murals on retaining walls, bridges or sidewalks; most tiled staircases; commemorative plaques; string lighting and minor landscape projects. | | Tier 3 projects require the most coordination and highest level of review. These include string lights hung across a commercial corridor, certain tiled staircases, construction of new stairways or retaining walls, sculptures, fog catchers, pedestrian-scale lighting, major landscape infrastructure and multi-amenity designs. | | |
Applicants for Tier 2 and Tier 3 projects must be an established community organization, a nonprofit, community benefit district or merchants’ association. Applications for Tier 2 and Tier 3 projects often include inter-agency reviews, depending on project type.
What sets this program apart? A few key features:
- It is staffed with its own dedicated program analyst who will work to streamline and provide step-by-step guidance through the application process. A designated in-house team of engineers also is available to review more complex projects and ensure safety and accessibility.
- Love Our Neighborhoods permits also come at a much lower cost to permit holders than other City-issued permits for encroachment into the public right of way. They range from free of charge to $1,065, depending on the project’s size and scope.
The application for all three tiers of the Love Our Neighborhood program is now live, and can be accessed via www.sfpublicworks.org/LoveOurNeighborhoods.
This website also includes detailed information about project requirements and application guidelines for all of the project types listed above.
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We’re looking forward to helping San Franciscans make our city’s public rights of way more vibrant for years to come!
If you have any questions as you learn more about the project types and prepare to send in an application, please reach out to us at LoveOurNei...@sfdpw.org.
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