Applications Opening Soon for Community Corners
Our new Community Corners Program lets community groups apply to enhance daylighted spaces. They can choose to fund murals and planters.
We plan to open the application portal soon! For now, please reach out by email to discuss the process and eligibility for a Community Corner. We encourage you to learn more below about our work building on the statewide "daylighting” law.
Safety Zone Program
The Safety Zone Program builds on California’s “daylighting” law. This law requires painting curbs red at certain intersections to improve visibility for everyone.
Our Safety Zone Program has two main pillars to help make existing no-parking zones safer and more meaningful for local communities.
First, we will add proactive safety upgrades at priority daylighting zones. With these upgrades, vehicles will not be able to park in daylighted spaces. This will make it easier for everyone to see what’s happening at an intersection.
Second, we are launching Community Corners. The new pilot program lets communities beautify painted safety zones by applying to fund and maintain murals or planters in them.
Proactive Safety Upgrades (led by the SFMTA)
The program uses a standard toolkit of treatments to reinforce the benefits of daylighting. While daylighting is a cost-effective treatment of painting curbs red at intersection corners to improve visibility between people driving and people walking in crosswalks, there are additional treatments that work to reinforce the space to make it more effective. We will evaluate locations to apply these treatments based on:
- Intersections on the High-Injury Network
- Areas with many pedestrian crashes
- Spaces near schools, senior centers, commercial corridors
- Spots on the All Ages and Abilities Biking and Rolling network
The toolkit includes:
- Painted Safety Zones (PSZ)
- Turn safety treatments
- Bike corrals
- Concrete islands
Community Corners Pilot Program (led by the community)
Community Corners are daylighted spaces with enhancements shaped directly by the local neighborhood. This two-year pilot lets community groups apply to improve painted safety zones. They can choose to fund street murals and planters.
These enhancements go a step beyond our proactive safety upgrades. They turn daylighted zones into vibrant spaces that better serve their neighborhoods.
Program Requirements
Stay tuned for the Community Corners design and eligibility document with more details on program requirements.
Eligible registrants must be one of these types of organizations:
- Non-profit organization
- Community benefit district (CBD)
- Merchant association
- Neighborhood group or association
Other program requirements include:
- $50 registration fee
- Requires maintenance agreement and attestation to comply with program requirements
- Certificate of Insurance required for planters
- Limited to appropriate street conditions. That means primarily spaces on the approach to an intersection, controlled by stop signs, and on low-volume streets.
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Corner must already have 20 feet of daylighted red curb. They also need to have a painted safety zone. You can check this painted safety zone map to see if a zone already exists in your neighborhood.
Responsibilities
Registrants must:
- Make sure that their projects follow the program requirements listed above
- Complete a maintenance agreement
- Document proof of insurance (for planters only)
- Document San Francisco Arts Commission approval (for street murals only)
Stay tuned! We will share a Community Corners design and eligibility document, which will provide more details on program requirements.