My first visit to Sunset Dunes was a remarkable experience. It doesn’t feel like a road anymore – it feels like an open-air community center. Kids riding bikes, couples walking hand in hand, seniors strolling with an ocean view. The energy is joyful and inviting. Sunset Dunes offers something rare – a shared public space that fosters togetherness and well-being.
We have this park today because a southern stretch of the Great Highway, just past Sloat, is rapidly eroding into the ocean. The state ordered its closure for safety reasons. That meant drivers were going to lose that direct route to Daly City and would need to reroute inland regardless.
So what should happen to the middle section of the highway, the part with no direct car access into the Sunset? That’s what Proposition K addressed, and it allowed this stretch to be reimagined as a park…