By Greg Wong : sfexaminer – excerpt
San Francisco wants to bolster its resilience to extreme heat by improving its notoriously outdated infrastructure.
Amid one of the worst heat wWhile the marine layer insulates The City from most extreme heat, San Francisco still contains hot spots — known as urban heat islands — that absorb and retain heat due to heavy concentration of infrastructure and limited green space. This includes neighborhoods such as South of Market, Bayview, Hunters Point and Chinatown, which are also some of The City’s poorest neighborhoods.
Wolff said that through this plan, The City hopes to reduce those heat islands, build weather resilience into existing buildings and work with community-based organizations to improve their emergency response to less resourced areas.aves to bake the West in recent history, The City announced this week its first-ever plan to boost protections for residents from the effects of an increasingly warming world...(more)
I’d like to know how they plan to remove heat islands when they are buildng concrete towers and pouring concrete all over the parks, cutting down mature trees and widening sidewlaks.