The San Francisco call., 1910-12-31
FUND PLEDGED FOR
COST OF PROJECT
Promotion Association Calls
Mass Meeting of Property
Owners for Discussion

Plans for the extension of Mission
street to connect with Market at
Twelfth are being perfected by the
Mission promotion association. A fund
of 100000 has been pledged by the
property owners of Mission street be-
tween Ninth and Thirtieth to pay for
the work in case an assessment district
can not be established to finance the
project or the supervisors do not pro-
vide for it. Complete plans are being
prepared by Thomas G. Peckham, con-
sulting engineer for the promotion as
sociation, and Arthur G. Scholtz, de-
signing engineer for the association.
At mass meeting called for Monday
evening, January 9, at the Mission pro-
motion association hall, Valencia street
near Sixteenth, to which all property
owners in Mission street from Ninth
street to the county line will be spe-
cially invited, the project Will be fully
discussed and the prospective drawings
shown.
PLANS FOR EXTENSION
The proposal to continue West Mis-
sion street through to Market in g.
direct line has been abandoned as un-
feasible and surveys have been made
for the extension of Mission street as
a widened thoroughfare, direct to the
ket streets. This will provide a direct
artery from Market street, the city's
main thoroughfare, to the national
guard armory at the site purchased
for the armory building at Fourteenth
and Mission streets trough the efforts
of the Mission promotion association. <
1t will also provide for the widening
of Mission street to 125 or $50 feet be-
tween Market street and Duboce ave-
hTir cir {11fn t1r, <xyif J,
the civic center of San Francisco at
Van Ness avenue and Market street.
The triangular parcel of land known
as the Mission plaza will be eliminated
so as to unity Mission and West Mis-
sion streets at that point, thus doub-
ling the width of Mission street north
of Thirteenth and providing for an
artistic plaza in the center of the wild
ened thoroughfare. From this point
Mission street will be continued in a
northeasterly direction diagonally
through the block between West Mis-
sion, Twelfth, Market and Brady
streets. This will give property in the
remaining portion of the block a 'front.'
age in Mission street.
ADVANTAGE Of PROJECT
In this manner Twelfth street be-
tween Market and Mission will be made
portion OF Mission street and the
irregular course of Mission street at
this point will be removed.
One of the chief advantages is the
provision for direct car service from
Market street into Mission, the main
outlet of the city.
COMPLETE PLANS READY
The good roads committee of the
Mission promotion association, consist
ing of Thomas G. Packham, P Brod-
erick, Arthur c. Scholz, ]. B. Zimdars
and Arthur Warren, will have the com
plete plans and surveys ready for the
mass meeting January and immedi-
ately afterward the matter will be pre-
sented to the proper authorities,
The project has been embodied in
the complete plans of the good roads
committee, which is known as the Ar
thur G. Scholz municipal good roads
system. The special committee of the
association of which F. Meyer is chair
man, which was appointed to investi-
gate the project, will also participate
in the discussion at the mass meeting.
One of the chief advantages of the
proposed plan is the fact that Mission
street in its widened state will run di-
rect to the block between Eleventh and
Twelfth, Mission and Market streets.
which has been proposed as the site
of a union depot or a municipal audi
torium.