| The Fisherman's Wharf Community
Benefit District has the following comittees: |
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| Click on a committe name for
current updates and to learn more. |
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During the 2009– 20010
fiscal year, the PIERsafe Committee will continue
to be focused on four main goals:
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- Creating an emergency and preparedness plan
for the community
- Recruiting new community members to become
NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team)
certified
- Holding an emergency response training exercise
with in the participation of businesses and
residents in the Fisherman’s Wharf community
participating
- Increase the involvement from the community
in the PIERsafe program
- Publishing quarterly PIERsafe newsletter
with preparedness information and safety tips
for the Fisherman’s Wharf Community
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| If you are interested in ensuring
that your business, staff and home are prepared
in the case of an emergency, to register
to become a PIERsafe member and receive our quarterly
newsletter. |
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STREET
OPERATIONS AND BEAUTIFICATION |
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The goal of the SOBO committee
is to ensure that the Fisherman’s Wharf
community is “Clean and Safe”. The
following projects mentioned in the President’s
report are managed by the SOBO committee.
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- Pedestrian Way Finding Signage
The pedestrian way finding signage program
has installed 10 signs in the Land-side CBD
to compliment the six signs installed on the
northside of Jefferson Stet by the Port of
San Francisco.
- Hanging Flower Baskets
Our community has decorated Jefferson Street
with beautiful hanging flower baskets to adorn
the light poles.
- Quarterly Steam Cleaning of Streets
(Land-side CBD)
To add to the cleanliness of our District
the Land-side CBD will have its sidewalks
steamed cleaned on a quarterly basis to improve
the appearance of our highly trafficked corridors
of Jefferson and Beach Streets and the arteries
from Powell to Leavenworth Streets
- Street Maintenance (Land-side CBD
) High Season
Augmenting the cleaning of the streets
within our Land-side 24 block boundary with
supplemental street maintenance services
- Graffiti Abatement Program (Land-side
CBD)
Remaining committed to removing all
graffiti offenses made in the boundaries of
the Land-side CBD within one week after receiving
report
- Security
10B Police Evening Coverage
During the months of highly visited
periods, the Wharf will be patrolled by 10B
police officers from Central Station adding
to the security in our Districts
Business Neighborhood Watch Program
The CBD is committed to making this community
safe for both our businesses and visitors,
therefore a Business Neighborhood Watch program
is being developed in concert with SF SAFE
Fisherman’s Wharf Communication
System
A communications reporting system will be
made available for the CBD and merchants to
send blast messages of important events occurring
in the District
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DISTRICT
IDENTITY AND STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS |
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| The Marketing Committee will
continue working to promote visitations to Fisherman's
Wharf. The Committee plans to focus its attention
on fine-tuning and optimizing our website. In
the coming fiscal year, we will continue to further
publicize Fisherman's Wharf through our new CD-ROM
Press Kit as well as participation in the California
State Tour and Travel Commission media events.
The advertising program will support local visitor-driven
campaigns such as Crab Season and Holiday Season
as well as assist in promoting Fourth of July
and Fleet Week. We also will aggressively try
to secure sponsors to supplement our advertising
budgets. |
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| Last year, the Planning Committee
retained San Francisco-based EDAW, an internationally
respected design firm specializing in revitalizing
waterfronts, to initiate a community-based planning
effort and to organize a series of community workshops
and develop a “vision plan” for the
Fisherman’s Wharf area. The vision plan
identified a number of priority actions to ensure
that the Wharf area will attract its share of
visitors and Bay Area residents in the future.
In February 2007, the CBD Board of Directors,
asked EDAW to focus on several priority projects
and to assess implementation costs related to
these projects.
These priority projects were:
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- Improve the seven-core block area of Jefferson
Street spanning west
from Pier 39 to Hyde Street/Aquatic Park with
wider sidewalks to
relieve overcrowding, defined bicycle access,
improved
paving, accommodation of the Bay Trail and
other public
amenities
- Develop a Parking Management Plan, which
provide better access to
parking facilities, improves area circulation,
resolves or better handles
congested and traffic conflicts along the
Embarcadero and Jefferson
Street, as well as other streets
- Completion of zoning review and adoption
of new policies to guide
future development and uses to preserve the
commercial fishing
industry and the family friendly environment
of Fisherman’s Wharf
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| We are pleased to announce
that through the collective efforts of the Fisherman’s
Wharf CBD, EDAW (our planning consultant), Planning
Director, Dean Macris, and Supervisor Aaron Peskin,
City monies have been allocated to allow for further
planning of the abovementioned projects and identification
of funding sources. We believe that future implementation
of these and other projects will preserve and
enhance the character and economic vitality of
the Fisherman’s Wharf area and ensure that
it is San Francisco’s destination of choice
for residents and visitors alike.
This year the main assignment of the Planning
Committee is to further the community based
planning efforts, guide the program of work
developed by EDAW and various City agencies
and help facilitate further stakeholder meetings.
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TRANSPORTATION
IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE |
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The goal of the Transportation
Improvement Committee is to help mitigate traffic
congestion due to tour operations in the area
and to improve vehicle and pedestrian safety while
helping to support the continuing success of all
tour operators within the Fisherman’s Wharf
Area. The Transportation Improvement Committee
meets on an as-needed basis, typically once every
two months. All meeting dates will be announced
to the community via email, and posted on the
FWCBD’s event calendar. Some of the topics
that this committee works to address include:
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- Standardization of most loading zones to
a twenty minute time limit as a means of facilitating
safer passenger loading practices and equal
opportunity access to municipal loading zones.
- Improved signage to direct tour operators
to the appropriate loading, staging, and long-term
parking areas.
- Requesting increased enforcement by the
San Francisco Police Department and Department
of Public Transportation in order to ensure
compliance by all operators.
- Create an open dialogue to improve relationships
between tour operators, merchants, and residents
in the Fisherman’s Wharf community.
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