Folsom-Howard Streetscape Project Background

The Folsom-Howard Streetscape Project will help fulfill the City’s vision for greater and more equitable access to safe travel and mobility services in SoMa’s historically low-income, transit dependent neighborhood. Over the decades, enhancing and maintaining San Francisco’s transportation infrastructure has played a critical role in the City's transportation and land use development.

The implementation of City plans and policies described below will help ensure that current and future transportation infrastructure continues to improve access and mobility safely and sustainably:

EN TRIPS Priority Corridors Map
Central SoMa Plan Map

San Francisco’s landmark 1973 Transit-First Policy prioritizes walking, public transit and bicycling on City streets.
San Francisco adopted plans and policies to improve streets throughout the City including the Better Streets Plan.
The implementation of the City’s Bicycle Plan; several area plans now incorporated into the San Francisco General Plan, guide development in the project area.
The 2009 Eastern Neighborhoods Plan and the 2011 Eastern Neighborhoods Transportation Implementation Planning Study (EN TRIPS) specifically articulate a vision for the project area and outline opportunities for increased housing, new development, and improvements to the transportation network.

The 2018 Central SoMa Plan refined the transportation recommendations from EN TRIPS and examined potential growth to year 2040 in the central SoMa neighborhood for sustainability, land use, public benefit, and additional transportation improvements. The plan forecasts an additional 8,800 housing units and 32,000 jobs in Central SoMa; the Project Area lies at the northern edge of Central SoMa.