Update of the ROSE

The Recreation and Open Space Element is the component of the City’s General Plan that provides a 20 year vision and plan for open space in the City. San Francisco last updated the Recreation and Open Space Element in 1986. The existing element provides a strong framework for open space acquisition and guidance on open space usage. The environment has changed in San Francisco over the past 20 years and while these goals will remain strong components of a new Recreation and Open Space Element new growth and new priorities are emerging.

City Planning staff, along with the Mayor's Office, the Recreation and Parks Department, and the Mayor's Open Space Task Force, are in the process of updating the ROSE.

Please take a moment to review the Draft Objectives and Policies of the ROSE; the ROSE guides the city’s actions on open space, and the current version has not been updated in 23 years.  Click here to read the draft document.  Please send your comments ASAP to Susan Exline at City Planning: susan.exline@sfgov.org.  We need to make sure the ROSE has enough “teeth” in it to acquire new parkland, especially in the Eastern Neighborhoods where development is greatest.

More information about the update of the Recreation and Open Space Element (ROSE) of the General Plan can be found here:

http://openspace.sfplanning.org