Get the Facts about Prop K

In June, five San Francisco Board of Supervisors members submitted a ballot measure asking voters to approve turning a 2-mile stretch of San Francisco’s Great Highway into an oceanfront park. 

What’s in Prop K?

If it passes, Prop K would amend San Francisco’s Park Code to “establish new recreation and open space by restricting private vehicles at all times on the Upper Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard…”

Prop K explicitly exempts emergency vehicles from the private vehicle restriction.

The Upper Great Highway land is owned & managed by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, whose charter states that park land shall be used for recreational purposes.

Read the full measure.

What isn’t in Prop K?

Immediate Change — If passed, the park will not appear overnight. The weekend and holiday pilot will continue into 2025 as the city obtains the necessary permits for a permanent park, allowing time to implement traffic improvements in the surrounding area.

Capital Projects — Passing this ballot prop would permanently make full-time the promenade we enjoy on weekends and holidays and enable the Recreation & Parks Department to make basic improvements like adding benches. While this measure is an important first step to reimagining the space, redesigning the park would be a separate public process.

Budget Changes — The Recreation & Parks Department already maintains the space with its general operating budget. The measure does not impose any additional costs for capital projects; it just makes the existing space a car-free promenade.

Restrictions on Emergency Vehicles — The ballot measure text explicitly allows emergency vehicles in the park at all times.

Commercial or Residential Development — This measure solely concerns the recreational use of the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard, space that must be dedicated, by law, for public use. It does not change any rules regarding commercial or residential development on coastal land.

In The News

  • San Francisco residents are poised to decide this November whether to ban cars on the Great Highway, for good.

    San Francisco Chronicle

  • "Building this park is our gift to future generations of San Franciscans"

    NBC Bay Area

  • "Proponents call the measure a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform the coastal highway into a park."

    San Francisco Standard

  • "It really makes a win-win... Everybody gets an ocean-front park and you solve the new driving route inland because we're all going to be turning inland anyway."

    CBS News- KPIX