Project Review Committee

The Project Review Committee looks at proposals for individual buildings, evaluating their potential to enhance the vitality of city life in San Francisco according to the policy priorities and principles of good urban design supported by SPUR.

SPUR recognizes that quality urban design can take many forms and is ultimately determined by a variety of factors, including the appropriate use or mix of uses, scale, site orientation, attention to physical and historical context, mitigation of environmental effects, treatment of the public realm, and effective management of circulation and transit needs. No matter what means a project uses to achieve its goals, the Committee will seek in it what nearly all good urban designs have in common: the creation of a collective environment that draws people together by being emotionally exciting or satisfying, safe, physically comfortable, useful and visually appealing. Equally important to the Committee, in our effort to improve the quality and innovation of built projects in San Francisco, are a project's intangible qualities that contribute to the vibrancy, elegance and distinctiveness of the City.

The SPUR Project Review Committee creates a greater constituency for good urbanism through practical example. Join us!

Meets each 2nd Tuesday of the month at 10:00 a.m.

Co-Chairs

Jeannene Przyblyski, professor, San Francisco Art Institute; executive director, Bureau of Urban Secrets; San Francisco Arts Commissioner; SPUR Advisory Council member

Dan Cohen, Planning Director, Catellus

To submit a project for review: Contact Jeanenne Przyblyski, jprzy@pacbell.net

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Review Criteria and Process

Projects Reviewed to Date

• August 2005: 144 King St.-Hotel (Chelsea Development Corp.) • Review Letter, August 24, 2005

• June 2005: 900 Minnesota-Mixed-Use Residential/Adaptive Re-Use of Historic Buildings (Build, Inc.) • Review Letter, August 12, 2005 • Endorsement Letter, November 29, 2005

• May 2005: Armstrong Place, Third Street-Mixed-Use Residential Development (BRIDGE Housing Corporation/San Francisco Redevelopment Agency) • Review Letter, June 2, 2005

• April 2005: 74 New Montgomery-Conversion to Residential Use of Historic Building (New Montgomery Associates, LLC) • Review Letter, May 2, 2005

• February 2005: Broadway/Embarcadero Hotel (Stanford Hotels, Inc.) • Review Letter, March 7, 2005

• January 2005: 45 Lansing Street-Residential Development (Jackson Pacific Ventures) • Review Letter, March 15, 2005

• November 2004: 5800 Third Street-Mixed-Use Residential Development (Levin Menzies & Associates, LLC) • Review Letter, December 14, 2004

• October 2004: Laguna Hills UC Campus/UC Extension-Mixed-Use Residential Development (AF Evans/Bridge Housing) • Review Letter, November 22, 2004

• September 2004: Public Health Service Hospital, Presidio-Conversion to Residential Use (Presidio Trust, Forest City) • Review Letter, October 3, 2004

• June 2004: One Rincon Hill-Residential Development (Rincon Ventures LLC)
  • Review Letter, July 19, 2004 • Endorsement Letter, March 15, 2005

• May 2004: 1000 16th Street/Daggett Triangle-Mixed-Use Residential Development (Urban Housing Group) • Review Letter, June 1, 2004

• April 2004: 3575 Geary-Senior Living and Health Center (Institute on Aging)
  • Endorsement Letter, November 29, 2005