PW – Curb Ramp Program

San Francisco is committed to improving curb ramps and ensuring accessible paths of travel for people with disabilities. Each fiscal year, Public Works, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office on Disability (MOD), develops a prioritized list of curb ramp locations for all supervisorial districts, with resident requests playing a key role in determining prioritization. Additionally, the City is addressing the unique challenges of curb ramps with sub-sidewalk basements, which require more complex planning and design due to structural complications, with more than 100 confirmed locations and hundreds more being assessed.

The total cost for the current Curb Ramp Program, including sub-sidewalk basements is projected to be $280.2 million over the next 10 years. The Capital Plan recommends $89.5 million from the General Fund, with $16.2 million in funding expected from State sources and Proposition L, the half-cent transportation tax administered by the San Francisco County Transportation Agency, to support these efforts.

PW – Street Tree Planting and Establishment

The Urban Forest Master Plan, Phase I: Street Trees, adopted unanimously by the Board of Supervisors in 2015, recommends growing the street tree population by planting 2,500 new trees annually, in addition to replacing an estimated 3,500 dead, unhealthy and damaged trees, for a total of approximately 6,000 trees a year.

The estimated cost for street tree planting and establishment is $199.7 million over the next 10 years. While $29.7 million has been identified through Proposition K sales tax revenue, Federal and other local sources, a need of $170 million remains unfunded.

PW – PW – Harvey Milk Plaza Market Street

This project will redesign the Harvey Milk Plaza site to create an iconic gateway to the Castro neighborhood, improve universal access, improve onsite safety and security, and integrate Harvey Milk memorial display fixtures, artwork, and sculptural landscape elements into the plaza landscape and hardscape. This project would regrade, repave and re-landscape Harvey Milk Plaza in coordination with the SFMTA Castro Station elevator project.

The estimated cost for this project is $37.8 million, with $25 million expected from the 2024 Healthy, Safe and Vibrant San Francisco G.O. Bond. Private fundraising and grants are expected to provide additional funding for this project.

PW – Bayview Transportation Improvements

This project will rehabilitate and reconfigure the right-of-way in the in the Bayview and Hunters Point Shipyard development areas to increase roadway capacities and increase safety and accessibility. It will reduce truck traffic on Third Street and residential streets and develop a more direct truck route between US 101 and existing and planned development projects in the City’s southeastern neighborhoods.

This project will be funded through a combination of developer and federal funding.

This project will rehabilitate and reconfigure the right-of-way in the in the Bayview and Hunters Point Shipyard development areas to increase roadway capacities and increase safety and accessibility. It will reduce truck traffic on Third Street and residential streets and develop a more direct truck route between US 101 and existing and planned development projects in the City’s southeastern neighborhoods.

This project will be funded through a combination of developer and federal funding.

PW – Powell Street Streetscape Project

San Francisco Powell Street is a critical entry corridor into Union Square. Every day, thousands of employees and visitors exit BART and Muni at Powell Street Station, come up through Hallidie Plaza, and head north, alongside San Francisco's iconic cable cars into the heart of the Union Square District. The project will refresh the three blocks of Powell Street between Geary and Market streets, to meet ADA standards and community expectations for a safe and beautiful signature street for the iconic Union Square downtown neighborhood. Scope to include upgrading the existing sidewalk areas and related subsidewalk basements, removing existing parklets, enhancing furnishing zones with site furnishings, renovating landscaped areas, improving existing pavement and drainage conditions, reconstructing roadway and cable car trackway areas, and installing placemaking / lighting features and related power connections, and all related work.

The estimated total cost for this project is $37 million.

SFPUC – Hetch Hetchy Power Transmission &
Distribution Program

These projects are consistent with San Francisco Administrative Code Section 99.3 establishing the SFPUC's role as the exclusive electric service provider for existing and new City facilities, and redevelopment and development projects.

SFO Substation Improvements – This project provides for the SFPUC to serve SFO’s anticipated load increase. The project will plan, design, and construct needed upgrades at the substations to provide reliable and redundant service to the airport.

Distribution Interface Redevelopment Projects – This project provides for the design and construction of new electric distribution systems and facilities for the SFPUC to provide electric services to various new developments within San Francisco. The project will consider the use and implementation of proven emerging technologies. Beneficial technologies will be identified, researched, and analyzed, prior to making a proposal for any implementation on the project, where ratepayer benefit is demonstrated.

Alice Griffith/Candlestick Point – This project provides for the second phase of development at Hunters Point Shipyard, Candlestick Point, and the Alice Griffith Housing Complex. The Development Team comprised of the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure and Developer will pay for the installation of the infrastructure and substructure required for the new 12-kV underground electrical distribution system. The SFPUC as the electric utility provider will install the conductors in the conduits, transformers, switches, and metering equipment required for the electric distribution system.

Carbon Free Steam – Project to access carbon free Hetch Hetchy Power service through two proposed electrolytic boilers.  As part of this project, SFPUC will need to install a new electrical interconnection transmission line and investigate whether to add additional capacity to connect other distribution customers.

Grid Connections – Project to connect customers to SFPUC owned and operated distribution and transmission infrastructure. Hetchy Power has identified a number of customers along the Bay Corridor and current SFPUC grid customers to be connected to our systems, including The Shipyard, 2000 Marin, 1990 Newcomb, UCSF block 34, Wastewater Facilities; in addition to providing for the interconnections and other customers throughout the City.

The costs of the SFPUC Transmission & Distribution Program is $1.2 billion through FY2035.

SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power – Streetlights

Hetch Hetchy Power Enterprise provides power to all of San Francisco’s 44,528 streetlights, maintains the 25,509 streetlights owned by the City, and funds the maintenance of the 19,019 streetlights owned by Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). Street lighting area improvements, the conversion of high voltage series loop circuits into multiple standard voltage service and Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting, holiday and festivity pole use, assessments to determine the severity of pole deterioration, streetlight pole rehabilitation, and replacement of poles are all funded through this program.

The cost of SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power’s Streetlights Program is approximately $49.7 million through FY2035.

SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power –
Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency improvements reduce facility operating costs and electric bills for customers, improve system functionality, and reduce the environmental impact of energy use. This program funds energy efficiency investments in City facilities covering the planning, design, and construction of "direct install" projects, as well as technical assistance and project assistance for departments utilizing their own capital funds. Energy retrofits include lighting, heating and ventilation, retro-commissioning, and energy management systems projects. The SFPUC performs three to five energy efficiency projects each year. The budget funds efficiency projects in municipal facilities for departments such as Police, Real Estate, Recreation and Parks, SFMTA, Yerba Buena Center, and Fine Arts. Planned funding for lighting and mechanical system efficiency upgrades are consistent with state policies that place emphasis on energy efficiency and that support greenhouse gas reduction.

The cost of SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power’s Energy Efficiency Program is approximately $10.0 million through FY2035.

SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power – Renewable/Generation Power

In accordance with City policies and directives to increase renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gases, Hetchy Power is continuously developing and implementing new renewable generation resources. Projects focus on small to mid-sized municipal facilities including solar photovoltaic, energy storage, biogas fuel cells, EV charging, microgrid, and other renewable energy projects. The power generated from the Renewable/Generation Power projects will offset on-site power need at each project location.

The cost of SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Power’s Renewable/Generation Power Program is approximately $10.0 million through FY2035.

SFPUC Hetch Hetchy Alternative Transmission Project

The Public Power Expansion Project funds financial, technical, regulatory, and legal analysis and City staff time toward assessment of acquiring PG&E's electrical assets, preparing to execute the possible transaction, and readying the SFPUC for operation of the acquired system. This work is ongoing. Staff have completed several analyses and are working through the Valuation proceeding at the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Environmental Impact Review (EIR) process.

The cost of the SFPUCs Alternative Transmission Project is $57.6 million through FY2035.

SFPUC – Treasure Island Wastewater Improvements

On October 1, 1997, concurrent with the operational closure of the Treasure Island Naval Station, the City entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Navy in which the City agreed to take responsibility for caretaker services on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. Through this agreement, the SFPUC provides utility operations and maintenance for the electrical, natural gas, wastewater, and stormwater systems on the islands.

The SFPUC has developed a work plan for creating a public power utility serving both islands. The capital projects identified are required to support the future developments’ electric load. Current planning shows that the existing electrical overhead poles, lines, and substation are adequate to serve the first phase of development. When the load approaches the design limit of the lines at approximately 10 megawatts, the lines will have to be upgraded and installed underground.

This project provides continued funding for a new tertiary four-million gallon per day wastewater treatment facility for the Treasure Island/ Yerba Buena Island service area to replace the existing, aged facility. The new treatment facility will include influent screening, a combined primary/secondary treatment process, sludge thickening and truck load-out, disinfection, odor control, and tertiary treatment.

The cost of SFPUC Wastewater’s Treasure Island Improvements Program is approximately $4.3 million through FY2035.

SFPUC Wastewater – Ocean Beach Adaption Project 

This project will develop a comprehensive shoreline management and protection plan in partnership with relevant stakeholders and regulatory agencies and establish a long-term solution to the erosion issues along Ocean Beach. This long-term solution is necessary to protect the integrity of critical wastewater assets that were constructed to protect public health and the environment. These assets include the Lake Merced Transport/Storage facility, the Westside Pump Station, and the Oceanside Treatment Plant, which are threatened by sea level rise and erosion at Ocean Beach.

The cost of SFPUC Wastewater’s Ocean Beach Protection Process is approximately $104.4 million through FY2035.

SFPUC Wastewater –  Southeast Outfall Condition Assessment & Rehab

The Southeast Outfall pipeline conveys treated effluent from the Southeast Plant to the San Francisco Bay. The condition assessment will determine if the pipeline from the onshore force main to offshore outfall can provide reliable service until the offshore outfall is replaced. Funding for rehabilitation is included in the project if determined necessary by the assessment.

The cost of the SFPUC Wastewater Southeast Outfall Condition Assessment is approximately $95.0 million through FY2035. Work includes rehabilitation of the Islais Creek Crossing.

SFPUC Wastewater – Customer Service System

Upgrades to the Customer Service Center Systems will modernize existing technology to optimize business processes aligning with current and future customer service needs and increased operational effectiveness.

The cost of the SFPUC Customer Service System Project is approximately $5.3 million through FY2035.

SFPUC Wastewater – Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP) Program-Wide Efforts

The SSIP is a series of capital improvement projects focused on improving the wastewater system to meet the present and future needs of the city. The Program-Wide Management Project will support the SSIP implementation, providing condition assessments (facility inspections), project definition and prioritization, public outreach and education, analysis of the impacts of climate change, sustainability evaluation, and general program management (program controls, change control, constructability).

The cost of SFPUC Wastewater’s Sewer System Improvement Program-Wide Efforts is approximately $130.7 million through FY2035.

SFPUC Wastewater – SSIP Treatment Facilities

SSIP treatment facilities projects include the Bayside Biosolids (Digester) Project in southeast San Francisco; improvements to the combined sewer transport storage and near shore combined sewer discharge structures; and improvements to the liquid treatment at the Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant, the North Point Wet Weather Facility, the North Shore Pump Station and associated outfalls; and improvements to the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant, Westside Pump Station, and Westside Force Main.

The cost of SFPUC Wastewater’s SSIP Treatment Facilities is approximately $2.7 billion through FY2035 for all capital projects (SSIP and non-SSIP).

SFPUC Wastewater – SSIP Sewer/ Collection System

This program includes an alternative for redundancy for the existing 66-inch Channel Force Main, hydraulic improvements to sewers and pump stations, and improvements to grey and green stormwater management infrastructure. This program also replaces existing sewers to increase hydraulic capacity, transportation/storage and combined sewer discharge structures, pump stations, and force mains.

The cost of SFPUC Wastewater’s SSIP Sewer/Collection System Program is approximately $198.0 billion through FY2035.

SFPUC Wastewater - SSIP Storm Management/Flood Control

This program includes work on drainage basins, green infrastructure, flood resilience, and the Green Infrastructure Stormwater Management Grant Program. For drainage basins, the SFPUC will build, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of eight green infrastructure projects to minimize stormwater impacts throughout San Francisco's eight urban watersheds. Flood resilience projects will address combined sewer flooding caused by heavy rain through capital improvements, financial incentives, Building Code amendments, options for affordable flood insurance, and enhanced coordinated storm response. Green infrastructure construction of permeable surfaces and engineers’ subsurface systems will sustainably augment the collection system for the management of stormwater flows. Finally, the Green Infrastructure Stormwater Management Grant Program will incentivize property owners to construct and maintain green infrastructure on large parcels. These projects will support the levels of service goals to minimize flooding, provide benefits to impacted communities, and achieve economic and environmental sustainability. Ancillary benefits may include reduced energy use (reduced pumping and treatment), potable water conservation, groundwater recharge, and improved community aesthetics.

The cost of SFPUC Wastewater’s SSIP Storm Management/Flood Control projects is approximately $736.3 million through FY2035.

SFPUC CleanPowerSF – Local Renewable Energy Program

This program will fund the development of new renewable energy (solar photovoltaic) and battery storage projects on select SFPUC sites. The project is structured around six major phases, including: Planning, Request for Proposals, Construction and Commissioning, Power Purchase Agreement, Asset Management, and Project Buyout. The initial renewable energy facilities developed under this program would be structured as power purchase agreements (PPA) with third parties that would develop and operate the projects for an initial period of time. The PPAs would include a buy-out option for the City.

The cost of the SFPUC CleanPowerSF – Local Renewable Energy Program is approximately $48.2 million through FY2035.

PW – Street Structure
Acceptance Program 

This program would repair and replace unaccepted streets and structures within the public right of way so they can be added and accepted into the City's streets network or structures inventory. Public Works regularly receives inquiries and requests for such locations, but there is no dedicated funding source to address this work. Some locations are historical subdivision oddities, while others are potential public safety hazards.

The estimated cost for the program is $46.5 million over the next 10 years.