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The 100-acre El Camino Real/Chestnut area will be a new walkable, distinctive, mixed- use district at the geographic center of South San Francisco, and one of the most pedestrian and transit-oriented places in the Peninsula. A network of open spaces will form the armature of new development. New streets and pedestrian connections will extend through the area, enabling easy movement on foot. The BART right-of-way that extends through the length of the Planning Area will be transformed into a linear park and a pedestrian-oriented “Main Street”, lined with restaurants, cafés, and outdoor seating in a portion of the right-of-way. Development will be at high densities, reflecting adjacent BART access.

15 acres of City-owned vacant land in the core provide a unique opportunity to establish a vision from the ground up. The plan envisions a new neighborhood of up to 4,400 residents housed in low- to high-rise buildings, along with nearly 450,000 s.f. of commercial and civic uses. It will provide a range of commercial uses; walking access to everyday amenities; new civic uses, potentially including a new City Library; and parks, plazas, and gathering spaces for the entire South San Francisco community. Taller residential buildings will have townhouses at the lower level with individual entrances oriented to streets, particularly on key pedestrian routes. Parking will be below grade or in structures, enabling efficient use of land.

The vision builds on the regional Grand Boulevard Initiative that calls for El Camino Real—the original Mission Trail that was first paved into a highway in South San Francisco nearly 100 years ago—to be transformed into a boulevard, highlighted by nodes of higher intensity mixed- use development.

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