The Tenderloin Community Action Plan's children's safe zone proposal is now in active alignment meetings between Mayor Daniel Lurie's office and DA Brooke Jenkins' office. This Sunday, five blocks of Ellis Street close for the return of Sunday Streets. Plus: City Attorney David Chiu sues the owner of 155 Hyde over a year of uninhabitable conditions after a 2025 fire.

The plan to designate more than a dozen Tenderloin square blocks as a protected corridor for children has moved from a planning document into active negotiation: Mayor Daniel Lurie's office and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins' office are now meeting to align on implementation, according to Esan Looper of the Tenderloin Community Benefit District, who is involved in the discussions.

The framework comes from the Tenderloin Community Action Plan's Investment Blueprint, published by SF Planning in June 2025 and endorsed by the Board of Supervisors that month. It proposes a Children's Safe Zone on blocks the plan identifies as having high concentrations of families, youth services, and children's programming — modeling elements on New York City's Harlem Children's Zone. The tools include murals, boundary signage, expanded street cleaning, increased police presence, and dedicated youth programming. No community rollout timeline has been announced.

Looper told Mission Local this week that the groups are still "in the process of aligning" on the specifics. "We gotta get to brass tacks, [like] can we do all of that?" he said. Community input is expected once those conversations conclude.

The blocks those planners are working to reshape drew 48 eviction notices over the last 90 days — filings include addresses on the 300 block of Turk Street, the 700 block of Polk Street, and the 0 block of Jones Street — and 929 service requests through 311 in the past seven days, according to DataSF. What "safety" means to the families living on those blocks is the unstated question the zone proposal is being built to answer.

This Sunday offers a more immediate look at what a car-free Tenderloin street feels like. Sunday Streets returns to the neighborhood on June 14, closing Ellis Street between Mason and Larkin from noon to 4 p.m. The 2026 season required a fundraising push to survive: the program's website called on supporters to "raise $100,000 by March 31st for the 2026 season" after facing a funding shortfall, with private donors eventually making it viable. The Tenderloin block party opens the four-event 2026 calendar.

Elsewhere: City Attorney David Chiu this week sued Golden Tiger LLC and its owner Adam La over 155 Hyde Street, a 52-unit Tenderloin building whose residents lived for months without power, gas, hot water, a working elevator, or functioning fire alarms after a fire on June 11, 2025. La, according to the complaint, let tenants reoccupy the red-tagged building two months after the blaze — providing butane camping stoves that the Fire Department characterized as a "significant hazard" — while utility systems went unrepaired. In September 2025, the Fire Department ordered a 96-hour evacuation; 89 residents, described as mostly immigrant families, were displaced. Chiu's complaint, filed June 4, 2026, seeks $650,000 in costs and penalties, plus $1,000 per day, as well as injunctive relief to force repairs. "No one should be living in a red-tagged building or using camping stoves for heat," Chiu said in a release Thursday. As of the filing, nearly a year after the blaze, PG&E had not yet approved the permits needed to restore power. The ground-floor storefront at 155 Hyde remains boarded up.