Comments on: Valencia Street Park

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:17:30 +0000

An urban garden would be great. But remember there isn’t another stretch of grass or trees nearby — the area is pretty parkless. Given the number of strollers in the neighborhood a playground sure would be nice.

Regarding one lane — ambulance and bus perhaps. Something like this could be interesting.

As for the laundromat — if there really were a useable, active public space I’d expect different use of the neighboring retail. On a side note, it’s interesting that the Kragens, car stereo place and the Aamco are in a space that was originally the Sears tire shop and auto center.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:05:58 +0000

If this was even feasible, a garden to supply food to local restaurants / people would be better than another stretch of grass / trees.

By: arlen

arlen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:32:34 +0000

there are some businesses on that block that rely on that corridor for delivery of large, heavy things that arrive on big trucks. also, nearly everyone who uses that laundromat drives and parks.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:45:09 +0000

I’m all for greening this stretch of Valencia– there’s only one traffic lane and a bike lane in each direction, so there is plenty of room to add trees and shrubs to the existing traffic lanes. But that one traffic lane is necessary for traffic– Guerrero has limited turns, Mission is backed up with traffic, Tiffany and Duncan are blocked off to through traffic, and Cesar Chavez is already going to be narrowed. Without that one lane for cars, it would be difficult to drop off sick people at the hospital, and the gridlock of the nearby stretch of Mission that delays the 14 and 49 buses will worsen. Let’s see what happens with traffic with the plan to remove a traffic lane from Cesar Chavez before creating more gridlock.

By: sangroncito

sangroncito — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:02:59 +0000

The more green space the better!