Visitacion Valley
Neighborhood Intelligence

Visitacion Valley sits at the southeastern edge of San Francisco, between John McLaren Park on the north and west, Bayshore Boulevard and US-101 on the east, and the San Mateo County line on the south. The neighborhood's main street is Leland Avenue, and it includes the Sunnydale area along Sunnydale Avenue and Hahn Street, where the Sunnydale public housing site is being rebuilt under the HOPE SF program. The former Schlage Lock factory site on Bayshore Boulevard is also being redeveloped as new housing. About 16,556 residents live here in roughly 5,078 housing units.

Housing is largely single-family homes and small multi-unit buildings, along with public and affordable housing. SF Planning Code zoning is mostly RH-1 (Residential, House, One Family), with RM-1 (Residential-Mixed, Low Density) covering larger housing sites and pockets of RH-2. Neighborhood commercial zoning includes the Leland Avenue NCD, plus NC-3 and NC-1 parcels, and a small PDR-1-G area near the freeway. Community spaces include the Visitacion Valley Greenway, Visitacion Valley Playground, and the Visitacion Valley Branch Library on Leland Avenue.