Community Streets / San Francisco

Our mission is to make neighborhoods safer by providing resources and support for community building events and initiatives.

San Francisco is currently experiencing a renaissance in rethinking how its streets can best serve the public good. The introduction of Slow Streets in April 2020 was the first of many city initiatives to help neighbors meet each other and prioritize the health and safety of people walking, biking and scooting over dangerous cut-through traffic.

Since then, projects like Downtown First Thursdays and night markets in the Outer Sunset, Chinatown and Mission District have brought droves of people out into the streets injecting millions into San Francisco's economic recovery.

However it's not always easy to meet people at events designed to attract thousands of people that are centered around live entertainment, commerce and alcohol. Community Streets focuses on creating pop up public spaces in quiet residential communities where feelings of loneliness and isolation haunt too many of our neighbors.

We are here to help you organize that community BBQ, happy hour or painting class you've been thinking about. You have an idea that can bring people together and we have resources that can help you pull it off. Join us, make new friends and learn a bit about how to advocate for safer streets along the way.

Image Credit – Rachel Paul

Our Team

Courtney Root

Haight Ashbury

Courtney is an artist and the founder of People!Art!Music! (PAM!), a company dedicated to uplifting local creatives, small businesses and grassroots organizations through art, design and community events. She moved to SF on a whim, immediately falling in love with its history, culture, architecture, & community spirit. Now 10 years later, she feels so blessed to be a part of the fabric of this city and can most often be found exploring the city with her dog Rae or catching live music in The Haight.

Jamie Urborg

Potrero Hill

Jamie is a marketer and the founder of SF Neighbors, an illustration business specializing in original, custom illustrations that reflect the magic, stories, and heart of the places we call home. She has been in SF for 12 years and loves being in nature, spending the day in the sun, and adventuring around this wonderful 7x7 city.

Stephen Braitsch

Lower Haight

Stephen is a community organizer, designer, data analyst and the creator of Transpo Maps, a non-profit that helps people advocate for walkable cities, better public transit and safer streets. He has lived in the Lower Haight since 2009, is a volunteer board member with LoHaMNA and helps organize the Lower Haight Art Walk each year.

Trish Gump

The Richmond

Trish Gump is a San Francisco mom-turned-street-safety advocate who raised two kids in San Francisco on bikes and buses—and got “radicalized” when her pandemic slow street was nearly rolled back by misinformation and politics.

Zaid Zayouna

NoPa

Zaid is a coffee lover with a passion for bringing community together. He has lived in San Francisco since 2012 and you will often see him riding his Slow Street Coffee bike around the city. He has made it his mission to activate slow streets and bring joy to the community one coffee bean at a time. He loves the outdoors and loves to spend time with his two daughters playing catch, kicking a soccer ball or riding bikes on the slow streets.

Our mission is to make neighborhoods safer by providing resources and support for community building events and initiatives.

Our Team

Community Partners