San Francisco voters will decide whether to convert Great Highway into oceanfront park

San Francisco voters will have the opportunity to turn a 2-mile stretch of the Great Highway into an oceanfront park via a ballot measure from city Supervisors Joel Engardio and Myrna Melgar.

Proponents of the measure pointed to the success of a pilot program that has turned the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard into an oceanfront promenade on the weekends. It is the city’s third-most popular park with nearly 10,000 visitors each weekend, according to Friends of Great Highway Park, a volunteer group supporting the measure.