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This year at our 32nd annual Good Government Awards, SPUR honored the SFpark Pilot Program team — Jay Primus, George Reynolds, Steven Lee and Lorraine Fuqua — for its implementation of its groundbreaking smart parking management program.

SPUR's 32nd annual Good Government Awards , held March 19, honored City of San Francisco employees who have performed exceptionally, becoming models for other agencies and cities around the country. Jocelyn Quintos was honored for her outstanding leadership and management of the Department of Public Work’s accounting operations. Her diligence and dedication in working across many city departments led, in a mere six months…

SPUR's 32nd annual Good Government Awards , held March 19, honored City of San Francisco employees who have performed exceptionally, becoming models for other agencies and cities around the country. Harlan L. Kelly, Jr. was honored for his outstanding leadership in the delivery and implementation of the SF Public Utilities Commission’s 10-year capital improvement program for water, sewer and power, and his specific innovation…

This year at our 32nd annual Good Government Awards, SPUR honored Ed Harrington with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his service to the City and County of San Francisco, including unparalleled fiscal leadership and managerial excellence through five mayoral administrations.

As the rest of the country eagerly watches the Republican presidential primary drama unfold, San Francisco prepares for a comparatively uneventful June election. Five proposed initiatives have dropped off the ballot, leaving the city to consider just two measures this election. Prop. A would change the competitive procurement and franchising for solid waste disposal in the city. Passage would end Recology’s regulated monopoly, and could…

The Final Ocean Beach Master Plan will be available for public review soon. Thanks again to all who have provided input on the Draft Ocean Beach Master Plan. We will take this feedback into account as we refine the final document over the next week. For those of you that missed our recent Lunchtime Forum on unveiling the Ocean Beach Master Plan , here is the…

On Thursday, March 8, the San Pedro Square Market filled with supporters of the new SPUR San Jose office, which opened in January. The 500 urbanists who joined us received a thundering welcome from San Jose Taiko , an award-winning traditional drumming group based in San Jose’s Japantown. The energy in the room continued to build as Leah Toeniskoetter, director of SPUR San Jose, asked…

On February 28, Salesforce announced its was suspending plans to build a 2-million-square-foot campus on the 14 acres it had acquired in San Francisco’s Mission Bay. Citing that it has grown faster than expected, the company will instead lease existing space two miles north, near Market Street in San Francisco’s Central Business District.

Two sites owned by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in San Francisco moved closer to becoming urban agriculture projects this week. Since October, PUC staff members have been conducting an urban agriculture feasibility study of open space adjacent to two facilities: College Hill Reservoir (at 360 Elsie Street ) in Bernal Heights and the perimeter of the Southeast Treatment Plant (at Phelps and Evans streets …

As the economy struggles to recover in the Bay Area, what are the prospects for city revenues in San Francisco? City budget staffers and experts on the local economy gathered at the 2012 Annual Economic Briefing, hosted by SPUR's Municipal Fiscal Advisory Committee, to discuss regional trends and projections for the city’s major revenue streams. The upshot: Our experts are starting to see some good news on the horizon. Unemployment has finally begun to decline, and San Francisco appears to be poised for revenue growth.

Redevelopment agencies across the state closed their doors on February 1, marking the end of an era for planning in California. How are San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose dismantling their agencies? What’s going to happen to the on-going projects and existing assets held by redevelopment agencies? And will any new planning tools emerge to do some of the work previously done by redevelopment agencies?

Can you make a living selling what you grow in a city? That’s a question a number of urban farming entrepreneurs have been working to answer in the past few years, and initial numbers are beginning to become public. The short answer is … maybe. For many new urban-farming businesses that have started in the past couple of years, it may be too soon to…

Ocean 海灘總體規劃建議草案 在過去的一年，三藩市規劃及城市研究協會 (The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, SPUR) 正與公共機構、社區人士、權益關注者和其他持份者一同 工作，為 Ocean 海灘總體規劃建議草案提供建議。這份總體規劃建議的目標旨在應對 Ocean 海灘一系列複雜的問題，當中包括基建、消閑娛樂、開放空間、瀕危的動植物、 以及在將來的可持續性等。在一系列讓公眾參與的研討會中，每一個備受關注的領域都已 被清楚解釋和作出討論。 最終建議包括以下六項重要舉措 : 重要舉措 1 改變位於動物園後 Great 高速公路在 Sloat 大街和 Skyline 街之間的路線 重要舉措 2 引入多用途海岸保護 / 修復 / 入口系統 重要舉措 3 為管理設施的用地而減少 Great 高速公路的寬度 重要舉措 4 中段海灘沙丘的收復 重要舉措 5 為金門公園通往海灘提供更好的連接 重要舉措 6 改善 Balboa 街以北的自行車道及行人道 要閱讀整個 Ocean 海灘的總體規劃，可瀏覽網頁 : http://www.spur.org/ocean-beach 。 歡迎公眾提供意見，如果想知道如何去提出您的意見，可到網頁 http://www.spur.org/ocean-beach 查看相關的指示。請將您的意見在 2 月 29 日之前提 交。

Members-only walking tours are one of the great benefits of joining SPUR . Tour leaders such as planners, architects, elected officials and other insiders spend a few hours with us, sharing their expert lens on our region. Want to know what's in store for 2012? Our new calendar of spring tours and other events is now online. For a peek at the kind of insight…

Thank you very much for your interest in the Ocean Beach Master Plan and for your help reviewing this draft document. The Ocean Beach Master Plan process was built around public and stakeholder input. The main purpose of the document review is for you to confirm the message and content is consistent with the past 12 months of discussion, input and alternatives development. The draft document review…