Balancing Oakland's Budget
Closing the city’s structural deficit to move toward fiscal solvency and economic growth
SPUR-Sponsored State Housing Bills Move Forward in Sacramento
News / With the California State Legislature back from its spring recess, key SPUR-sponsored housing legislation is making its way through the Assembly Local Government and Housing and Community Development committees. We’re supporting bills to prohibit minimum parking requirements for new buildings near transit, allow faster permitting of shelters for unhoused people, make development fees more transparent and more.
How We Got a Parkway for the People
News / This spring, SPUR and San Francisco celebrate the culmination of an extraordinary public project that started 31 years ago: the Presidio Parkway. What began as a safety project to replace a dangerous elevated highway became a community-led process to heal a landscape torn apart by freeway building. SPUR played a critical role in bringing people together to complete this once-in-a-generation project.
SPUR 2021-2022 Annual Report
Annual Report /2021-2022
This year, SPUR celebrated the completion of the Regional Strategy and began the long-term work of building toward the future it envisions. We tackled immediate concerns, like public transit’s fiscal crisis, and pursued the longer-term changes that will influence quality of life for generations.
Different Together: The 2022 State of SPUR Address
News / In this year's State of SPUR address, given at our annual Board of Directors retreat, SPUR President and CEO Alicia John-Baptiste reflected on the past few years and looked ahead to how we can build on what we've learned, so that the region's future is one in which all people thrive.
Accelerating Sustainable Transportation in California
Policy Brief / To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate pollution, California will need to build out the infrastructure to make walking, biking and riding transit the default ways to get around. Senate Bill 288, which expires this year, makes it faster to build commonsense sustainable transportation projects. SPUR recommends that the state extend and improve the law by passing SB 922. This brief provides background on SB 288 and describes the impact of the law, including case studies on projects built since it was passed.