Who is CC Puede?

CC Puede works to make Cesar Chavez Street become a livable street where all people can enjoy living, working, shopping, learning, playing, resting and traveling.

Goals

Long-term:

• To transform Cesar Chavez St. into a place where one wants to be
• To make the waterfront edge at the end of Cesar Chavez, just past 3rd Street, a southern destination point, while preserving its industrial uses.
• To rebuild the 101 highway interchange and develop the land above it.
• To develop a Complete Street that reflects the creek underneath and helps to frame the Islais Creek watershed.

Medium-term:

• To develop Cesar Chavez St. into a complete street that works well for all modes of transportation, including walking, biking, transit and driving
• To implement traffic calming/management measures, similar to those on Valencia, Potrero, and San Jose/Guerrero
• To iInstall an east-west biking and walking corridor
• To develop the corridor into a greenway
• To install places for people to sit, interact, and enjoy the street
• To enforce laws that keep the sidewalk accessible and safe to pedestrians
• To improve the area so neighborhood-serving and walkable businesses can thrive
• To have the corridor serve as a unifying gateway between Bernal Heights and the Mission, Potrero Hill and Bayview
• To improve land use
• To add mixed-use housing
• To improve accessibility to the larger institutions, such as hospitals and schools, along the corridor

Desired outcomes

To increase:

• Biking
• Walking
• Park-like greenery
• Open space
• Safety for day laborers seeking work
• Opportunities for sitting and interacting
• Transit service and links
• Transit to Caltrain
• Public art

To Improve:

• Traffic flow
• Air quality
• Drainage/permeability of street and sidewalk surfaces

To Decrease:

• Speeding
• Noise pollution
• Flooding

Values

• We honor Cesar Chavez himself and represent his values in what we do and how we do it.
• Cesar Chavez Street should express the specific cultural and ecological diversity it represents and avoid generic elements.
• There will be no displacement as a result of improving the street or thereafter.