San Francisco voters approve a ballot measure to split Public Works into two, creating a new Department of Sanitation and Streets to focus on street cleaning, tree care and other operations functions. However, before the split was fully implemented, voters went back to the ballot and reversed course in 2022 to keep the department whole. Both ballot measures created two commissions.

Margaret Hayward Playground reopens following a $28 million renovation that transformed the beloved 6-acre park in the heart of the Western Addition into a modern hub for recreation.

Proposition E is approved by 76 percent of voters, allowing Public Works to care for the City’s nearly 135,000 street trees and fix tree-related sidewalk damage under the new StreetTreeSF program. 

First Navigation Center opens in the Mission District on a former school site. The innovative homeless shelter aims to move people living in street encampments into more stable housing.

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center - The seismically safe acute care and trauma center opened this year. It was financed by a $887.4 million obligation bond and construction was managed by Public Works.

San Francisco’s new Police Department Headquarters and public safety campus opens in Mission Bay neighborhood. Public Works provided project and construction management.

The historic San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building, opened in 1932 and site of the signing of the United Nations Charter but 1945, gets essential seismic upgrades and improvements.

Pit Stop Program begins in the Tenderloin to provide clean and safe public toilets, as well as used-needle receptacles and dog waste stations, in San Francisco's most impacted neighborhoods. All the Pit Stop facilities are staffed by paid attendants who help ensure that the bathrooms are well maintained and used for their intended purpose.

James R. Herman Cruise Terminal opens at Pier 27. Public Works oversaw the development of the existing Pier 27 into a new primary cruised ship terminal and public plaza.

Phase 1 of the Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response (ESER) bond passes to provide $420.4 million to fund improvements to essential public safety facilities and seismically upgrade their aging infrastructure.