in February 2024.<\/a> Over the next two years, a new plan took shape, and on Thursday, the Recreation and Park Commission approved a conceptual design for the Marina Improvement and Remediation Project.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cThis plan is a culmination of years of government involvement and civic advocacy,\u201d said Rec and Park Commission chair Kat Anderson, after the unanimous vote to approve the plan and accept environmental safeguards approved by the Planning Department. \u201cThis is going to be a beautiful waterfront recreational area and I can\u2019t wait to get my paddleboard in the water there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new plan does not result in any obstructions to the view for homeowners on Marina Boulevard. Instead, additional boat slips will be installed north of the breakwater at the East Harbor. The total number of boat slips in the East Harbor has been reduced by 170 in the new plan, to a total of 536 city-owned boat slips in the East and West Harbors.<\/p>\n
Most of the boats in the East Harbor have already been temporarily relocated and the crumbling wooden piers that served as harbor have been removed.\u00a0 Those slips will not be coming back as the shallow water basin near shore is slated to become a community dock and recreational facility for kayakers and other non-motorized watercraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other planned amenities include a widened shoreline and bay trail improvements including nature exploration and a small plaza. Beach volleyball courts and a picnic area will be added, along with new planting, irrigation, lighting and furnishings.<\/p>\n
As part of the plan, the Gashouse Cove fuel dock \u2014\u00a0a fixture in the East Harbor for generations, and the only public fuel dock San Francisco \u2014 will be relocated to\u00a0 the West Harbor, near the St. Francis Yacht Club. The East\u00a0 Harbor fuel tanks are underground; plans for a new West Harbor fuel dock have not been finalized.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chrissy Kaplan, operator of the Gashouse Cove fuel dock for more than 30 years, told commissioners Thursday that her dock has come to the aid of the waterfront during emergencies as a fuel station for fireboats. \u201cI object to the design concept for this project,\u201d she said. \u201cYou are eliminating a resource that is not broken.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anderson said there will be no interruption in fuel service during the construction process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to convert Gashouse Cove in San Francisco\u2019s East Harbor into an expanded 5-acre public park next to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1727,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-271871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-outdoors","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}