The Market/Octavia Neighborhood plan is a part of the San Francisco Planning Department's Better Neighborhoods Program. Located at the heart of San Francisco, the area is at the nexus of three of the City's street grids and contains important regional, cultural and civic destinations. Since the 1930's, the area has been deluged with regional traffic and suffered from the intrusion of elevated urban freeways. The demolition of the Central Freeway,which was damaged in the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989,and its replacement by the new Octavia Boulevard will help repair the damaged fabric of HayesValley.The plan creates the potential for several thousand new dwellings to be built close to transit and proposes guidelines for infill development as well as opportunity through out the district. Solomon E.T.C. served as Urban Design Consultants to the San Francisco Planning Department and developed building typologies and design guidelines site by site for the district.