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SFB Reviews Above-Ground Utility Boxes
(Winter, 2003)
Recently our Public Affairs Committee hosted an informative conversation with Edwin Lee, the Director of the Department of Public Works (DPW), regarding above ground utility boxes and the regulations DPW is developing regarding their placement, use and visual/physical impact on our city sidewalks and neighborhoods.
DPW recently entered into a contract with Comcast Cable to install 300 utility boxes in San Francisco. This contract is the basis for draft regulations that DPW is developing to ensure that the city is informed of plans to erect utility boxes and can properly monitor the box site selection, construction and use, especially in the neighborhoods. The regulations also call for public notice to tenants and property owners in close proximity to a proposed utility box site.
We are reviewing the contract and will provide DPW staff with our comments. In addition, we are researching utility box undergrounding alternatives and ways to conceal the equipment in a more aesthetically acceptable manner.
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