Attached document contains a collection of emails from neighbors who are expressing their interest, support, opposition, and input to Vision Slow Triangle efforts. This is as of 8/8/2022.
If we are missing any of your input, please email us at slowtriangle@dtna.org.
DTNA Neighbor Emails Combined as of 08082022.pdf
Please join us at the Harvey Milk Center for Recreational Arts on Tuesday, August 9, at 7 pm for the Final Presentation on our work to have our neighborhood formulate what a Slow Triangle means for our community.
The presentation is the outcome of two months of working intensely with neighbors, merchants, and stakeholders inside and outside the Duboce Triangle a well as city departments.
We started in July jointly defining what matters to us. Amongst a large diversity of viewpoints, we found the common denominator was: a safer, greener, more accessible, and identifiable Duboce Triangle.
We then had neighbors design solutions to achieve this. Our two UC Berkeley interns with backgrounds in Urban Planning, Landscape & Architectural Design took that input, visualized and developed it, and sought another round of feedback from the community and City Departments. On Tuesday, August 9, we will be jointly reviewing the fruits of their labor.
We are excited to have you and jointly review the outcome of this process.
Hans
This document contains feedback from neighbors about their wishes, objections, hopes, and dreams as of 7/31/2022
We are committed to a transparent process, but also respect privacy of contributors and will not disclose input unless we have received specific permission from the author to do so.
If we are missing your input and you would like to have it displayed, please email slowtriangle@dtna.org
DTNA Neighbor Emails Combined as of 07312022.pdf
This is a work in progress, subject to further neighborhood.
The attached presentation was prepared by Martine Kushner and Eugene Lau, two UC Berkeley graduate students, working on this project under the guidance of Prof Zach Lamb and PhD student Tyler Pullen.
The document is a first attempt at summarizing the work concerned neighbors have put in to develop design solutions to areas they care about, including traffic safety, equitable access, greening and neighborhood identity. It is based on:
Please provide further feedback:
- GENERAL
- SPECIFIC TO THE DESIGN PRESENTATION
UC Berkeley - DRAFT CONCEPT DESIGN PRESENTATION - 20220729.pdf
Summer workshops are underway to engage residents and businesses of Duboce Triangle and adjacent neighborhoods on their ideas for a Slow Triangle. It has been great meeting some of you at our recent workshops and at the Farmers’ Market, and we look forward to hearing from you at a future meet- ing. In the meantime, we also invite you to fill out our survey, to help us understand your thoughts on what a Slow Triangle could mean.
This concept of designing an improved Duboce Triangle began at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Noe Street was converted into a “Slow Street.” Throughout San Francisco, and in cities across the country, these “Slow Streets” were implemented to limit through traffic and open the road to more accessible and wider uses for pedestrians and cyclists. These modes of street design and usage are not necessarily new. Temporary street closures make way for block parties, street festivals, and farmers’ markets. Examples of permanent pedestrianized streets can be found all around the world in cities like Barcelona, Copenhagen, and Paris, along both major thoroughfares and in more intimate neighborhood settings. While there are some universal approaches to redesigning streets to create safer and more open public spaces, Duboce Triangle is unique in its history and relationship to the rest of the City. A tailored approach to understanding the neighborhood is necessary before diving into a Slow Triangle design proposal.
Initial research was done on the current and potential implementation of Vision Slow Triangle here in Duboce Triangle by 3 groups of graduate students from UC Berkeley on the topics of Walkability & Mobility, Sustainability, and Activation.
Some of the proposed ideas included improving existing corner bulb-outs as mini-plazas, adjusting parking orientation in key areas to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists, and pedestrian improvements on 14th Street to support movement and access to businesses. After hearing feedback on these ideas from residents at a December 2021 presentation, we have remained open to any and all of your ideas. This summer, we are conducting community workshops to add to these initial ideas and we are inviting everyone to play a part in this process. As stakeholders in this community, your wants, dreams, and lived experiences are essential ingredients in how a potential vision for a Slow Triangle can be articulated, planned for, and implemented.
So far, we have completed two workshops: in the first one, we collected ideas on potential Design Values that resonated with community members and shared precedent examples that could be applicable in Duboce Triangle. Participants in the second workshop took part in a design charrette, giving people an opportunity to articulate their ideas through creative brainstorming and interactive activities. As a result of these workshops, we are planning to present concept designs and refined recommendations to seek additional neighbor input before connecting with City departments and other community partners to make what the neighborhood wants a reality.
To stay informed about the Slow Triangle workshops, please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/JtLKRZ- jAcn8VC18B7, or email us at slow- triangle@dtna.org with any and all ideas. You can also learn more at dtna.org (under “Initiatives”). We will be sending out more detailed information about each event to those interested.
This document contains meeting notes and photographs of the neighbor input from our first community meeting discussing what we care about and what matters to us when we think of a "Vision: Slow Triangle".
Vision Slow Triangle - Meeting 1 Notes - June 23, 2022.pdf
202206 DTNA Vision Slow Triangle Presentation Materials.pdf
These are interim results as of a total of 52 responses. We will continue to update.
Survey Results 52 Answers.pdf
We are fortunate and grateful to UC Berkeley Graduate Student, Jieqiong Yang for completing her capstone project on the Duboce Triangle
"Enhancing Street Livability By Traffic Calming and Streetscape Design in the Duboce Triangle" can be found here
The below file shows design solutions that workshop participants developed during our 2nd workshop.
These design solutions are grouped into four thematic areas that were highlighted as "areas we care about" or "design values" in our first workshop.
These design solutions were later incorporated in the presentations shared during workshop 3 and 4.
Charrette - Design Output from Work Shop No 2.pdf
My name is Martine Kushner, and I am excited to introduce myself as DTNA ’s summer intern! I ’m looking forward to joining the team and getting to know the community over these next few months.
As for my background, since graduating from Washington University in St. Louis in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and minors in Urban Design and Global Health and the Environment, I ’ve worked as a Landscape and Urban Designer at Balmori Associates and as an Intern for Humanitarian Development practice at UN-Habitat. Last fall, I moved from New York City to the Bay Area to pursue a dual Master ’s degree in Architecture and City Planning at UC Berkeley, where I just completed my first of three years. I am passionate about the built environment and its potential as a vehicle for sustainable and equitable change, and I ’m excited to help the DTNA move forward with its vision for a slow triangle.
As many of you may know, since last fall DTNA has been collaborating with the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley to conduct research for Vision: Slow Triangle, focusing on three topics: walkability and mobility, sustainability, and activation. This summer, building on that work and continuing with the participatory approach, I will help conduct a series of community meetings and workshops where we will work together to identify a set of design values for the public realm. From there, I ’ll propose concept designs based on these values, your input, and the research generated by my peers.
I ’m very grateful to be a part of this project and look forward to meeting you and hearing your ideas! Should you have any questions or comments, please reach out to me at landuse@dtna.org.
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