The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11
MISSION Street
OPENINGP PROPOSED
Plan Would Give ThOrOughfare
From San MateO to Fort
Mason
By F. ]. CHURCHILL,
retary siiSsiOnPromotiOn Association

Secretary Mission Promotion Association
Acting on the petition Of merchants
and property owners in Mission street,
the Mission Promotion association will
consider at its next meeting the
: project of extending Mission street
through 10 Market, thus making II a
continuous street from the main thor
oughfare of the city to San Mateo
county.
The, proposed plan contemplates the
cutting through of West Mission street
in q northerly direction between Her
mann and Market streets. At present
West Mission street is the logical con-
tinuation Of Mission street between
Fourteenth and Hermann streets, Mis-
sion street proper branching at THIS
pofnt, in an easteFly direction and par
alleIing Market street to the ferry. The
yroposed extension of West Mission
street through private property would
create an opening on Market between
Twelfth and Valencia streets, directly
ODposfte the point where Franklin
street 5oins Market, thus providing not
only a direct means of access from the
water front TO the southerly portion of
1.-THE peninsula, but also a direct route
from san Mateo TO the Fort Mason
military reservation at the foot OF
. Franklin street
ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
5 An assessment district will probably
. be created TO bring about this improve
nent, as all the interested property
owners are unanimous in their lndorse-
-meut Of the project.
A supplementary report OF the Mis-
sion promotion associations committee
on streets and sewers, outlining COM
prehensive system Of boulevards from
4be Pacific ocean to the bay, has been
submitted TO the organization To OBJ
,7fate tho, heavier grades in Russia. ave-
me II Is. proposed to have Russia ave-
nue serve as the continuation of the
essferlv course Of Onondaga avenue
only as far as Vienna street At that
.,oint 1t is suggested that the boUle-
z-ard system be extended southerly
from Russia avenue over Vienna street
10 France avenue, where France ave-
nue. at present terminates recon-
rrendation is made that France avenue
he opened through the Soups tract TO
connect with Sunnydale avenue, the
s,-sfen, TO extend thence over Sunny
dale avenue to Ailliken street which
is practically a part of Nisitacion ave-
nue.. and thence over Visitacion avenue
to the bay
socfa+f lions committee is working in
conjunction with other civic organiza-
lions in designating the most feasible
,-oute for the boulevard extensions
,.-bich will prove one of the most at
tractive features OF the city and
county.
TO IMPROVE BOULEVARD
The board Of public works has in
structed the city engineer TO prepare 8
design for improving the Nineteenth
street boulevard in the center of the
Mission park between Dolores and
Church streets. This boulevard is sc
situated that it can be beautifed and
prove. an added attraction TO one Of the
few breathing places IN the heart OF
fhe Mission At a later date the park
and playground committee Of the Mis-
sion promotion association viii appear
before the park commissioners to ask
FOR rbe construction of an underground
Savatory at the corner of Eighteenth
md Dolores streets at the northeasterly
corner Of the park.
Following the disastrous fire of June
which threatened to destroy the ma
ior portion of the Horner addition, the
specfal committee. which was appoint
ed by the Mission promotion association
TO Investigate the needs Of the burned
section. has recommended as a means
Of preventing further extensive fires
in the neighborhood that an eight inch
main be layed in Noe street from Twen-
fv-sixth to Twenty-ninth, and in Twen-
tv-ninth TO Castro street. It is also