#IfIwasChiefPlanner

Since this is not a "If I were King" question, but that of a responsible head of planning, I'd focus on a variety of relatively boring changes to technical regulations most people don't know about. 

TRANSPORTATION

1. Make it legal to 'park' parklets/food trucks on the curb for parking rates.
   Use Reid Ewing's research to estimate actual parking requirements for residential development, and map the city parking requirements accordingly
2. SFPark-style program designed to ensure parking availability through appropriate pricing.
   
3. Temporary 'holiday' on car traffic for use as outdoor space
4. Enact a 'bollard warrant' for any location where a car is on the sidewalk twice
5. Any neighborhood with parking issues gets a parking pass. Parking passes can be sold and transferred; no new parking passes can be created.
6. All 2-direct cycle-ways are bollarded (to prevent drivers misunderstanding them as car-lanes).
7. Sidewalk completeness audit, including width. Following up the next year with a sidewalk condition audit. 
8. Narrow all collector streets to 2 10' travel lanes; add staggered curb extension along the street (chicanes) bulb-out the curbs accordingly, to a 25 mph standard; 3" mountable curb in truck relevant locations.
9. Replace all low-traffic intersections with roundabouts.
10. 'Bench standard' for public seating, based on Streetlight data pedestrian traffic. Sufficient seating for 2% of traffic flow. 
11. Replace arterial on-street parking with dedicated bus lanes; median running or BAT lanes where appropriate
12. Enact a curb-cut elimination program along arterial streets, to eliminate those that are too close to intersections, too long, or no longer relevant
13. Ban new drive-thrus and gas stations. 
14. Pedestrian tunnels/bridges across/under expressways at the mid-point between interchanges
15. Replace arterial bike lanes with curb separated bike-lanesx2) establish bi-directional cycleway on one side of major streets.  
16. Bikes lanes start with paint, then 'vertical paint', then curb separation. Where safety warrants (ie, where any cyclist is hit), add a jersey barrier
17. Road diets on all 4-lane roads lacking safety areas/parking
18. Get the fire chief to accept a 'length limit' for the clear space in the international fire code 
19. Curb management program for 'conflicting' locations where parking isn't being used normally, but for restaurant pick-ups or deliveries--also for Uber/Lyft
20. Replace on-street parking with bicycle lanes where feasible/appropriate
21. Speed Audit: Use Streetlight to find out where average speeds > speed limit; adjust street geometric design accordingly - special focus on extreme outliers (racing)
22. Tactical urbanism approach to add 'temporary' bike lanes through use of jersey barriers/etc.
23. Mandatory sidewalks with geometric design associated with a 25+ mph speed limit. 
24. Mid-block single-lane 'neckdown' in residential neighborhoods.  
    

LAND USE

1. Eliminate (irrelevant) fire setbacks for masonry buildings
2. Ban on new cul-de-sac--all streets must connect to another street. 
3. Establish by-right ADU designs
4. Legalize factory-built housing (limit it to larger than a trailer-width to fight off the NIMBY... maybe limit it to multi-story structures)
5. Remove billboards as a 'compliant use'.  
6. Residential zoning code that reflects fire-code building types. 
   
7. 'Vancouverism' height for set-back exchanges on commercial office
   
8. Japanese style 'shadow zoning', with height limit proportional to street width.
1. Rivers/canals may be shadowed.
9. Use 'senior housing' as a density beach-head, with 4-over-1 apartments. 
10. Awnings over the public right of way do not count as 'permanent fixtures'.
11. Legalize single-stair buildings with cross ventilation--limit # of units (or square feet/story). 
    
12. Require developers to forecast property tax revenue (and costs) associated with proposed development.
13. Mandatory condition assessments of condo structural stability. 
14. Regulate by lot coverage and building height, not FAR. 

MISC

1. Disclose all procurement costs - bids, contracts, etc.
2. Eliminate employee parking allowance; change to free transit pass
3. Publicly accessible geodatabase of all transportation assets
4. Establish a Twitter account to crowdsource pics of traffic and building code violations
5. Abolish design review
6. Require public meetings to have a zoom/call-in speaker queue, so the attendees can include evening workers and people with children.
7. Ordinance that will require a clear path on city sidewalks during construction projects
8. Require employers who pay for or subsidize parking for their commuting employees to provide an equivalent taxable cash benefit to employees who do not drive and park
   

PLANS

1. Transit Plan (Bus/Rail)
   
2. Transit Oriented Development Plan
   
3. Connectivity study, identifying missing active transport links
   
4. Freight Access - Truck routes, routes trucks are taking that they shouldn't.
   
5. Housing Audit - compare jobs-housing balance vs. regional total using 30min buffers; do it by income categories.