San Francisco Public Works Annual Report Fiscal Year 2015-16 | Page 27

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Pollinator
Boulevard
Public Works crews and community
volunteers transformed a stretch of
the Dolores Street median from a
water-thirsty lawn into a beautiful
landscaped habitat. The Dolores
Street Pollinator Boulevard project
created a healthy garden with
California poppies, sages and other
blooming plants that produce pollen
and nectar for bees, butterflies and
other beneficial insects. The garden
is designed in rainbow colors with
peak blooms coinciding with Pride
festivities in June. just south of Market Street. Public
Works helped organizers navigate
the permit and grant processes and
assisted with workday traffic control,
provided tools and helped mulch
and plant. The hope is to add more
Dolores Street blocks to Pollinator
Boulevard.
The project started with a one-block
stretch of the Dolores Street median baselandscape.com/portfolio/pollinator-
boulevard
Funding for the project came
through a Community Challenge
Grant and is part of the Street Parks
program in partnership with BASE
Landscape Architecture.