Welcome to the Recreation & Park Department's Planning Division
Our Mission:
To facilitate informed decision-making by providing the Department's executive and management staff with necessary baseline and best practices information.
The Planning Division is responsible for items and issues related to: land use planning, long range planning, acquisitions, CEQA and General Plan Referrals, implementation of strategic and operations plans, capital planning, recreation needs assessment and implementation, public outreach, real property transactions, benchmarking data, geo-spatial planning utilizing GIS technologies, GIS data support for site-specific planning, and background research for potential Department policies.
Highlights:
Call for Nominations for Community Opportunity Fund Taskforce Members - Due August 29th (PDF)
General Obligation Bond
In August 2005, concerns from city leaders, citizens, Mayor Newsom and the Board of Supervisors culminated in Administrative Code Sections 3.20 and 3.21 requiring the City to annually develop and adopt a ten-year constrained capital expenditure plan for city-owned facilities and infrastructure. The code ensures the Plan's relevance by requiring that all capital expenditures be reviewed in light of the adopted capital expenditure plan.
The City and County of San Francisco FY 2008-2017 Capital Plan proposes $17.5 billion in citywide spending, $4.5 million (12%) of which is designated towards recreation and parks. Investments go toward the wide variety of critical capital needs, preserving and in some cases modernizing the facilities citizens rely upon. Given the long useful lives of these improvement projects and that the project costs exceed the ability to utilize pay-as-you-go revenue sources, it is appropriate to use debt financing. The use of debt also serves to spread out the financial burden of paying for facilities between current and future generations that will both receive its benefits. The Recreation & Park Department has been asked to prepare a General Obligation Bond Proposal for the June 2008 ballot by the Mayor's Office and the City Administrators Office Capital Planning Program.
Assessment data shows $1.7 billion in capital improvement needs system-wide. There are several funding options for many of the Departments needs, and identifying the appropriate funding source for each type of need or project will be an ongoing discussion. The pressing issue is preparing for the June 2008 Bond and, moving this discussion forward, setting priorities and establishing criteria to determine what will be included in the bond proposal. In 2004 criteria was established for the Revenue Bonds, however it was specific to the projects that had already been scoped.
Golf Program and Course Assessments - coming soon
Park Patrol Analysis and Proposal - coming soon
CEQA Documents
Policy, Reports & Plans
Acquisition Policy
Dog Play Area Master Planning
Dog Policy Online
Recreation Assessment
Natural Areas Management Plan
Efficiency Plan
Operations Plan
Strategic Plan
Final Draft Sharp Park Golf Course Compliance Plan (PDF)
Maps
System-Wide Map - coming soon
NSA Map - coming soon
Individual Park Map - coming soon
Park Finder
Contact Information
SF Recreation and Park Department
McLaren Lodge Annex, Golden Gate Park
501 Stanyan Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94117-1898
Fax: 415.831.2099
e-Mail: rpdplanning@sfgov.org
Dawn Kamalanathan
Planning Director
Karen Mauney-Brodek
Planner III
Daniel LaForte
Planner III
Sean Stasio
Planner I
