CALL IT PLAYLAND PARKWAYS? Or perhaps Sunset Dunes?
Those names and three others — Great Parkway, Fog Line and Plover Parkway — will be put before San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Commission.
The panel will consider what to call the coastal park that replaced the Upper Great Highway on Wednesday, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department said in a press release Friday.
The five names were drawn from 15 possibilities in an online survey.
The public was asked to weigh three names based on their connection to nature, historical significance, community resonance, “iconic placemaking,” appropriateness and clarity, the department said.
More than 3,900 responses were received, the department said.
The new park, overlooking Ocean Beach, was created by closing a two-mile stretch of the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard. The decision was hotly contested by some neighborhood groups that said it would increase traffic.
A community celebration will open the park on April 12.
Details of the naming process will be released on the Recreation and Park Commission’s website, the department said.
The post San Francisco narrows down 5 possible names for new park on Great Highway appeared first on Local News Matters.