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Privately Owned Public Open Spaces

Metadata Updated: December 14, 2025

Privately-owned public open spaces (POPOS) are publicly accessible spaces in forms of plazas, terraces, atriums, small parks, and even snippets which are provided and maintained by private developers. In San Francisco, POPOS mostly appear in the Downtown office district area. Prior to 1985, developers provided POPOS under three general circumstances: voluntarily, in exchange for a density bonus, or as a condition of approval. The 1985 Downtown Plan created the first systemic requirements for developers to provide publicly accessible open space as a part of projects in C-3 Districts. The goal was to “provide in the downtown quality open space in sufficient quantity and variety to meet the needs of downtown workers, residents and visitors.” (See Planning Code Section 138 for regulations). Since then, project sponsors for residential projects may provide POPOS instead of their required open spaces in the Downtown Residential (DTR) and Eastern Neighborhoods (Section 135 of the Planning Code). Learn more at http://sf-planning.org/privately-owned-public-open-space-and-public-art-popos

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 14, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from SFO JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 14, 2025
Publisher data.sfgov.org
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.sfgov.org/api/views/65ik-7wqd
Data First Published 2024-06-25
Data Last Modified 2025-12-13
Category Culture and Recreation
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.sfgov.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id d1b338c6-f1f0-44de-9950-3289619ce747
Harvest Source Id 8507fa43-f429-4095-b732-2177330ce485
Harvest Source Title SFO JSON
Homepage URL https://data.sfgov.org/d/65ik-7wqd
License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 53946a622c26326a6465ba50079bd3093c5a4e021c209119220fd9b50e8f67da
Source Schema Version 1.1

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