Introduction
Imagine a future in which today’s ideas and policy proposals are put into place … and they work.


What would it take to house every family?

To provide safe and swift travel by train,
bus, bike, and foot?

To design welcoming communities that meet residents’ daily needs?

To reframe downtowns as places to live and play?

To ensure that everyone can afford healthy food and attain economic security?

To support people and ecosystems to thrive?
The challenges the Bay Area faces today
are the result of choices we made in the past:
the laws, policies, and social agreements that
hold the status quo in place.

The good news is, we can create a different future by making different choices.
SPUR works to change outcomes by changing policies.

Three years ago, our foundational Regional Strategy asked, “How can the Bay Area become a place where all people thrive?”
We proposed steps that local, regional, and state governments can take to create an equitable, sustainable, and prosperous region.
This year, SPUR’s work moved these visionary proposals forward.

Thanks to our research and advocacy, housing is becoming easier to permit and build, residents are phasing out their use of fossil fuels, and the vision to convert offices into homes is moving closer to reality.
The solutions to the Bay Area’s challenges are at hand.

Together, we can put them into place.
This Year's Big Wins

Big Wins in 2023

This year SPUR made steady progress on our Regional Strategy priorities, taking steps that, over time, will make housing faster to build and help the region phase out fossil fuels. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we also addressed new challenges, such as securing funds to keep transit operating and reimagining urban downtowns.

 

 

 

Eddy and Taylor, San Francisco

California Makes Significant Progress on Affordable Housing

Governor Newsom signed five SPUR-sponsored bills that will increase the production of housing for low- and moderate-income residents. Two of particular note: Assembly Bill 1633 (Ting) prevents the misuse of environmental review processes to stop or delay new housing and is considered one of the year’s most impactful pieces of legislation. Assembly Bill 1287 (Alvarez), which provides a “super density” bonus for projects that include housing for very low-income and moderate-income households, is already having an impact on housing production: At least five proposed projects in San Francisco have already submitted project applications using the new law.

 

 

Funeral for Bay Area Public Transit

Helping Bay Area Transit Survive — and Thrive

Changes in travel patterns since the pandemic have put large transit operators across the state at risk of fiscal crisis. In response, SPUR initiated and co-led the Survive and Thrive Coalition, which secured a one-time infusion of $5.1 billion from the state budget, $400 million of which went to support Bay Area transit. This helped avert major service cuts, which would have disproportionately burdened low-income households. But this solution is not permanent. SPUR has been appointed to the first-ever statewide Transit Transformation Task Force and continues to advocate for more transit funding from the state and region, as well as for more predictable sources of funding.

 

Air District ruling people celebrating

Bay Area Approves First U.S. Standard to Phase Out Sale of Gas Appliances

Thanks to advocacy by SPUR and our partners in the Bay Area Clean Air coalition, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District approved a first-in-the-nation standard for phasing out dirty gas appliances. Starting later this decade, fossil fuel furnaces and water heaters in the Bay Area will be replaced with clean electric alternatives such as heat pumps when they reach the end of their lifespans. The new standard tackles pollution from gas water heaters and furnaces, which are responsible for more nitrogen oxide pollution than all of the region’s passenger vehicles combined.

 

 

100 Van Ness, San Francisco

San Francisco Removes Regulatory and Financial Barriers to Office-to-Residential Conversion Projects

As a result of SPUR’s research and advocacy to introduce more housing and revitalize downtown San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors simplified the approval process for office-to-residential conversion projects. SPUR’s work also prompted Mayor Breed to place Proposition C on the March 2024 ballot to reduce taxes on office-to-residential conversions and make it easier to finance these projects.

 

 

Healthy Food Incentive Sign and Produce in Grocery Store

A Leap Forward for Healthy Food Incentive Programs

California took a big step forward in scaling up healthy food incentive programs: CalFresh participants can now get bonus dollars from their healthy food purchases electronically credited to their benefits card. The instant rebates are provided to participants in the CalFresh food assistance benefits program, who earn matching dollars when they buy fresh fruits and vegetables. The new program replaces paper coupons and is expected to dramatically increase participation, a leap made possible by legislation SPUR co-sponsored and technology upgrades SPUR helped implement with grocery store partners.

 

 

Housing Construction at 730 Stanyan, San Francisco

San Francisco (Finally) Makes It Easier to Build New Housing

For years, San Francisco’s restrictive project-approval process has made it hard to build new housing, contributing to the city’s current affordability crisis. In 2023, a state mandate requiring San Francisco to build 82,000 new homes within eight years prompted the city to adopt a housing plan that committed to reforming policies and practices to speed up housing production. SPUR’s advocacy helped push forward a suite of planning code changes to make good on the city’s commitment, which includes allowing senior housing and homeless shelters in all of the city’s neighborhoods, eliminating extraneous public hearings for most types of housing, and cutting city fees on affordable housing units.

 

Research

Research

SPUR publications in 2023 explored what the Bay Area’s housing costs mean for racial inequality, whether it’s financially viable to convert office buildings to housing, how to implement changes that will make bus transit faster and more reliable, and where community planning policies can support neighborhoods and small businesses.

 

 

 

For sale sign outside art deco apartment building

What the Housing Crisis Means for Middle-Income Households and Racial Inequality

The Bay Area housing market has been shaped by scarcity and widening economic and racial inequality. SPUR released research on how the definition of “middle income” has changed, how housing costs have affected who can afford to live here — and what is happening to those who can’t. We identified four steps policymakers could take to support both middle-income and low-income households and do a better job producing middle-income housing.

 

Mission Bay, San Francisco skyline

Exploring the Viability of Office-to-Residential Conversions in Downtown San Francisco

Converting empty offices into apartments could both reanimate downtown San Francisco and provide housing for more people in an area rich in transit, jobs, culture, recreation, and entertainment. In a first-of-its-kind study, SPUR and ULI San Francisco (in partnership with Gensler, HR&A Advisors, Sylvan Development Group, and the Emerald Fund) explored the physical and financial feasibility of converting office buildings to housing. SPUR and ULI’s report laid out six policy imperatives for realizing office-to-housing conversions on a large scale.

Al fresco dining, Post Street, San Jose

Leveraging Outdoor Dining to Enliven San José Neighborhoods

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of San José’s outdoor dining initiative extended a critical lifeline to businesses and their patrons. The program continues to be a popular way to advance economic recovery and enliven streets. SPUR recommended four strategies for improving upon the Al Fresco Initiative and expanding it to neighborhoods citywide.

 

Bus in bus lane, Broadway, Oakland

Strategies to Accelerate Transit and Gain Riders

The Bay Area’s transit system provides equitable access to opportunity for all and plays a critical role in curbing California’s greenhouse gas emissions. Both of those goals depend on growing transit ridership significantly — and quickly. The best way to do that is with buses. A new SPUR report recommended strategies that state agencies, transit agencies, and local governments could employ to give transit vehicles priority over cars on Bay Area roads and state highways, creating the speed and reliability improvements needed to get more people out of cars and onto buses. This work is informing SPUR-sponsored state legislation and the development of a regional transit priority policy.

 

Colorful illustration of neighborhood by Sam Rodriguez

Equitable Growth and Complete Communities in San José and Beyond

The concept of the “15-minute neighborhood,” where residents can access essential, everyday services just a short walk or bike ride from home, has gained currency in recent years. SPUR published a brief looking at how San José could use the 15-minute framework to implement its plan to grow by building dense, mixed-use “urban villages.” We recommended six strategies to enable the creation of these more complete, connected, and equitable communities.

Advocacy

Advocacy

In our advocacy role, SPUR was appointed to a statewide transit task force, built coalitions for earthquake and groundwater-rise resilience, helped to end biased traffic stops in San Francisco, and more. We also saw longtime efforts bear fruit with approvals for a network management structure for regional transit, climate adaptation plans at Ocean Beach, and transit priority on Geary Boulevard.

 

 

 

 

People with bicycles at Caltrain Station, San Francisco

Transforming California Transit for Today’s Needs

Governor Newsom and the California Legislature called for the creation of a statewide Transit Transformation Task Force to recommend policies for increasing transit ridership, improving the transit experience, and addressing long-term operational needs. SPUR was appointed to serve on both the 25-member task force and the supporting technical working group. The state’s largest foray into transit policy in decades comes at a pivotal time for systems that are still struggling to stabilize their financial footing post-pandemic. It will also be critical to achieving the significant reductions in driving needed for California to meet its ambitious climate commitments.

 

Ocean beach

Ocean Beach Climate Plan Takes Big Steps Forward

The Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Project took major steps toward full implementation with the San Francisco Planning Commission's certification of the environmental review, approval of the project’s alignment with the city’s General Plan, and approvals by the Department of Recreation and Parks and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The project implements many components of SPUR’s Ocean Beach Master Plan, which envisions the transformation of the shoreline into a resilient and protected open space.

 

Render of Geary Boulevard bus project

Transit Priority Takes a Win on Geary Boulevard

Getting buses out of traffic is critical to meeting equity and environmental goals, growing ridership, and keeping transit on a financially firm footing. After 20 years of advocacy by SPUR and others, San Francisco finally approved bus priority improvements for the Richmond District segment of Geary Boulevard. It couldn’t have happened without Senate Bill 922 (Wiener), which SPUR co-sponsored. The bill exempts sustainable transit projects from the California Environmental Quality Act, which has been used to delay and litigate projects such as bus priority, sometimes for decades.

 

 

People at turnstile Montgomery Station, San Francisco

Coordinating Regional Transit as a Seamless Network

SPUR has long advocated for regional transit governance and improved coordination among transit operators to deliver better outcomes for customers. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Bay Area transit operators formalized a new Regional Network Management structure that will be critical to helping transit recover and grow ridership and to ensuring that customers have a seamless experience as they travel across the region.

Crane and the Civic Center, San Francisco

San Francisco Reduces Fees to Speed Up New Housing

In line with SPUR recommendations, San Francisco adopted new legislation to reduce the cost of housing development in order to accelerate construction. The Housing Stimulus and Fee Reform Plan lowers the amount of affordable housing that market-rate projects must build under the city’s inclusionary housing policy and reduces development impact fees. The cost reductions could accelerate the construction of 8,000 approved but unbuilt units, including 2,500 units downtown. Another 10,000 units will be able to move quickly into construction once approved. Concurrently, SPUR and partners advocated for putting a new affordable housing bond measure on the ballot ahead of schedule to create more funding to build low-income housing. Proposition A passed in March 2024.

 

EV charger in car

Shortening Timelines to Connect Electrified Homes and EV Chargers

SPUR supported successful Senate Bill 410 (Becker), which addresses the very long timelines for upgrading electrical connections when electrifying buildings and when connecting new housing and EV charging to the power grid. The new law directs the California Public Utilities Commission to set reasonable average and maximum target timelines for these projects by September 2024. If the commission adopts ambitious timelines, it could reduce one of the greatest barriers to decarbonizing buildings: the long delays customers often experience when they need more electricity for their homes.

 

 

Apartment block Rand and Glen View, Oakland

Building a Coalition for Earthquake Resilience Advocacy

SPUR convened a coalition of the Structural Engineers Association of California, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the U.S. Resiliency Council, and local government leaders to collaborate on advocacy efforts and establish a system for rapid response to state seismic legislation. The coalition partnered with Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez to preserve $250 million in state funding for the Multifamily Seismic Retrofit Program. Our efforts succeeded in securing $15 million for the program in the 2023–24 state budget. Unfortunately, in January 2024, Governor Newsom cut the funding due to the state’s budget deficit. Despite this setback, the seismic coalition is poised to negotiate and advance earthquake resilience priorities.

 

EPA groundwater map

Taking Action on Groundwater Rise

Increasing rates of sea level rise have surfaced a lesser-known climate risk for Bayshore cities: shallow groundwater rise. Rising salt water pushes groundwater up through the soil, increasing flood risk and earthquake-liquefaction potential, degrading underground infrastructure, and surfacing contaminants left by industry. In partnership with community-based organization Nuestra Casa, SPUR helped launch the Groundwater Rise Coalition to coordinate advocacy and education in low-income and low-lying neighborhoods of San Mateo County. SPUR is a co-coordinator, researcher, and advisor on the coalition’s efforts.

 

Illustration of traffic stop with officer and car

Putting an End to Biased Traffic Stops in San Francisco

Black and Latinx drivers in San Francisco are pulled over more than other drivers for offenses so minor that citations are often not issued. When these “pretext” stops result in tickets, the fines can be punitive. Using data-driven decision-making supported by SPUR’s research, the San Francisco Police Commission deprioritized eight types of pretext stops that had no effect on road safety and little effect on public safety. SPUR worked in coalition with impacted people and dozens of other organizations to help end this unjust practice.

 

Mangoes up close

California Extends Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program

The California Legislature and Governor Newsom reinvested in the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program, which provides low-income households with up to $60 each month in additional food assistance when they buy fresh fruits and vegetables with their electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards. Funding in the amount of $9.65 million in the 2023–24 state budget ensures that the program won’t die on the vine, a victory given the state’s significant budget deficit.

 

Education

Education

SPUR’s 2023 convenings brought people together to consider new perspectives on thorny problems and to celebrate civic accomplishments. We were honored to be recognized for our roles in advancing sustainability concepts and in providing civic leadership on housing and transportation challenges.

 

 

Silver SPUR Award winners

Silver SPUR Awards Honor Civic Leadership

The 61st annual Silver SPUR Awards recognized four individuals whose achievements exemplify the highest aspirations of the San Francisco Bay Area: Diane Filippi, founder and former director of the SPUR Urban Center; Dr. Tricia Hellman Gibbs, co-founder and attending physician of the San Francisco Free Clinic; groundbreaking television journalist David Louie; and Arabella Martinez, founder and former CEO of the Unity Council.

 

Keynote speaker and Alicia John-Baptiste, Ideas and Action 2023

Ideas + Action 2023: Housing Beyond “Zero Sum”

SPUR’s annual Ideas + Action symposium explored the topic of housing policy beyond “zero sum” thinking — i.e., the limiting belief that helping some to prosper must come at the expense of others. Keynote speaker Heather McGhee led an investigation into common zero-sum misconceptions, such as “policies that support renters harm homeowners” and “affordable housing leads to declining property values.” Our daylong conversation explored the role that racism plays in these debates and the policies needed to create more affordable and inclusive cities for all.

 

Alicia John-Baptiste

SPUR’s Alicia John-Baptiste Named to San Francisco Business Times “Power 100”

Alicia John-Baptiste, SPUR’s president and CEO, was named to the San Francisco Business Times’s first-ever Power 100, a list of the most influential people in Bay Area business. The Silicon Valley Business Journal, sister paper to the Times, tackled the South Bay with its own Power 100. The lists also included current SPUR board members Sam Cobbs and Gary Dillabough; former board members Fred Blackwell, Carl Shannon, Garrett Herbert, and Connie Martinez; and 2022 Silver SPUR honorees Jackie Safier and Jane Garcia.

 

Candlestick Point community garden

SPUR Receives the 2023 LAF Founders’ Award

The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) recognized SPUR with the 2023 LAF Founders’ Award for significant contributions to preserving, improving, or enhancing landscapes over a sustained period of time. LAF highlighted SPUR’s initiatives that “empower communities to test scalable models and policies for sustainable concepts such as expanding the use of public land for urban agriculture and designing for rising sea levels,” noting that SPUR has helped drive legislation and action on climate change and inequity.

 

Corona Heights houses

Partnering on Equitable Solutions to the Housing Crisis

SPUR collaborated with the Partnership for the Bay’s Future — a partnership of the San Francisco Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LISC Bay Area, and Shift the Bay — to hold two conversations on equitable housing solutions. Our first event examined best practices for engaging communities to craft housing policies. The second conversation explored innovative approaches to mitigating the housing crisis by leveraging “little p” policies, i.e., nimble and often localized actions that tend to be easier to implement than traditional governmental “Big P” policy.

 

 

President’s Letter

President’s Letter

SPUR’s President, Alicia John-Baptiste

Creating the Capacity for Change

 

SPUR holds a vision that the Bay Area can become a place where all people thrive. The disruptions of the past few years have challenged us to think differently about how we achieve this goal. When the way we live has changed so dramatically, we have to ask ourselves: Given where things stand now, what would allow people to thrive?

 

One benefit SPUR brings in a time of disruption is that our long-term view is clear. We know the future we want to build. We believe that for people to thrive, we need abundant homes, easy and sustainable mobility, access to open space, vibrant downtowns, and climate-resilient communities.

 

But while these are necessary ingredients, they do not guarantee vitality on their own. Because thriving is in fact a dynamic state. To sustain wellbeing, our communities need the capacity to evolve in positive ways as our world continues to change.

 

SPUR helps to create that capacity for the Bay Area. It’s in our organizational DNA to hold space for new ways of thinking and to trust that a better future is possible. SPUR held a vision to remove freeways and repair neighborhoods after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, to make accessory dwelling units legal to build, and to connect the region through a fully electrified Caltrain service, which will launch later this year. Today we are reimagining downtowns, inventing a financially sound future for transit, and enabling homes for all in high-resource neighborhoods as we continue to hold the vision of an equitable, sustainable, and prosperous region where all people thrive.

 

Through your support of SPUR, you are critical to building the capacity the Bay Area needs. Thank you for helping us to hold the vision of a better future.

 

Alicia's signature

 

Alicia John-Baptiste

President and CEO

 

 

 

Financials

Financials

Fiscal Year
2023-24

 

Statement of Activities and Financial Position
As of March 31, 2024

Note: updated July 11, 2024. Financial statements are unaudited.

Revenue $8,097,610
Membership $4,893,848 60%
Grants $1,788,172 22%
Special Events $865,539 11%
Earned Income $226,288 3%

Investment Income Net

$323,764 4%
Expenses $8,868,735
Policy, Programs
and Publications
$6,193,598 70%
Development $1,395,484 16%
Admin $1,279,653 14%
Net Income $(771,124)
Net Assets $12,911,013
Assets $15,516,690
Liabilities $2,605,677
Thank You

Thank you for making this work possible

SPUR Annual Contributors

SPUR gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions made by the following organizations and individuals.

 

 

Foundations & Grant Support

Institutional donors supporting SPUR through grants.

11th Hour Project

ASTHO / NACCHO

California Department of Social Services

California Health Care Foundation

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

Climate Imperative

Crankstart

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Dylan Todd Simonds Foundation

FIRST 5 Santa Clara County

Gaia Fund

Hellman Foundation Fund

Jacobs Family Foundation

The John and Marcia Goldman Foundation

JPMorgan Chase

Knight Foundation

Koret Foundation

The Laney and Pasha Thornton Foundation

Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund

Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Foundation

Marin Community Foundation

San Francisco Foundation

Santa Clara County Public Health Department

Seamless Bay Area

Seed Fund

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)

Stupski Foundation

Summit Foundation

Sunlight Giving Foundation

Tipping Point Community

Toeniskoetter Family Foundation

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Yerba Buena Community Benefit District (YBCBD)

 

Legacy Society

Individuals who have made or pledged a life estate gift to SPUR.

 

Michael Alexander & Dianna Waggoner

Andy & Sara Barnes

Annette L. Billingsley

Cece Blase

Jim Chappell

Linda Day

Diane Filippi

Linda Jo Fitz

Jean S. Fraser

David A. Friedman

Marsha Gale

Bryan E. Grunwald

Vincent & Amanda Hoenigman

James Jeong

Toby & Jerry* Levine

Richard & Marilyn Lonergan

Terry Micheau

Robert Steinberg

Stephen & Sarah Taber

Lydia Tan

Peter Tannen & David Strachan

Brooks Walker III

President’s Circle

Abundant San Francisco

David Coulter & Susan Weeks

Linda Jo Fitz

David Friedman & Paulette Meyer

Antje Kann & David Maltz

Chris Larsen

George Miller & Janet McKinley

Stephen Silberstein

Dylan Todd Simonds

Roselyne Swig

Benefactors

Adam Abrons

David Baker & Yosh Asato

Alan Billingsley & John Podolsky

Jim Chappell

Madeline Chun & John Farnkopf

Leah Culver

Diane Filippi & Ephraim Hirsch

Robert Friedman

Douglas Koshland & Mary Porter

Terry Micheau & Rob Evans

Bill & Alice Russell-Shapiro

Dan & Jackie Safier

Temple & Barney Schauble

Gene & Abby Schnair

Carl & Diane Shannon

Gussie Stewart

Lydia Tan

Michael Teitz & Mary Comerio

Mrs. Alfred Wilsey

Urban Leaders

Michael Alexander & Dianna Waggoner

Eddy Ancinas

Lindsay Baker

Richard Barna

Drew Behnke

Annette Billingsley & Terry Bergmann

Cece Blase

Aaron Bloom

Ben & Jocelyn Blumenrose

Matt Bornski

Deborah Boyer

Eliza Brown & Hal Candee

Michaela Cassidy

Daniel Chatman

Dahlia Chazan

Claudine Cheng

Anagha Dandekar Clifford

Adele Corvin

Mary Davidge

Oscar de La Torre

Tamsen Drew

Arthur Evans

Donald Falk

Jonathan Feldman & Lisa Lougee

Jim & Kenna Fenton

Bonnie Fisher & Boris Dramov

Leslie Fisk

Paul Fitzgerald

David & Vicki Fleishhacker

Meryl Meyer Friedman

Jean Fraser & Geoffrey Gordon-Creed

Marsha Gale

Ed Harrington

Jane Hartley

Nina Hatvany

Frances Hellman

Sabrina & Mick Hellman

Robert Holgate

Dennis Hopkins

Aaron Johnson

Corey Johnson & Lisa Ruff

Dawn Kamalanathan

Ron & Barbara Kaufman

Niall Kennedy

Donald Klingbeil

Lewis Knight

James & Cathy Koshland

Michael Kossman

David Kremer

Barbara Lawrence

Rob Lawrence

William Leddy

Frankie & Frances Lee

Stephen Levy

Mark Liang

Ellen Lou

Mary Lovejoy

Erik Malmstrom

Jamaica Maxwell

Sean McBride & Steve Cary

Jacinta McCann & Joe Brown

Paul McCauley & Joan Kugler

Marlo McGriff

Gregg Miller

Jennifer Moore

Clare Murphy

Sean Murphy

Jeanne Myerson & John Cate

Katharine Norwood

Heather & Robin Olinto

Keith Orlesky

John Parman & Kathryn Snowden

Shannon Peloquin

Regina Phelps

Philip Pielet

Mark & Tia Pierce

Kristina & Steven Raspe

Marci Riseman & Evan Sagerman

Christopher Roach

David Sacarelos

Paul Sack

John Sanger

Amanda Schapel

Mark Schlesinger & Christine Russell

Margaret Sheehan & Bruce Colman

Joshua Simon

Joseph Speicher & Brynn Rubinstein

Michael Spiegelman

Daniel Spoonhower

Kate Stacy

Charlie Stigler

Erik Strahm

Luke & Elizabeth Swartz

Jack & Deb Sylvan

Chek Fong Tang

Travis Thompson

Laney & Pasha Thornton

Leah Toeniskoetter

Sally Towse

Shin-pei Tsay

Molly Turner

Varnhagen Family Trust

Elñora Webb

Fran Weld & Matthew Materkowski

Kate White

Robert Wilkins

Marcel Wilson

Cynthia Wong

Planners

Teresa Alvarado

Ross Boucher

Jay Bradshaw

Don Cecil

Elizabeth Colton

Manoj Dayaram

Richard DeLeon

Shannon Dodge

Martha Ehrenfeld

Patrick & Melissa Feder

Richard Fleischman

Regina & Dan Foldes

Dr. Patricia Gibbs

Dehan Glanz

John Grcina

Jennifer Gridley

Rosalynn Hughey

Laurie Johnson

David & Carol Kroot

Noah Lazarus

Chandler Lee & Carolyn Stone

Matthew Levine

Derek Lindner

Charles Long

John Mackenzie

Beckett Madden-Woods

Paul Maltzer

Monica & John Marcone

John Marx

Eric McKean

Beverly Mills

Matthew Myers

Javier Ortiz

James Paxson

Laurie Poston & Brian Ferrall

Jay Powell

Kirby Sack

Steven Schlansker

Preeyanka Shah & Sumeet Ajmani

Rich Shrieve

Dan Slaughter

Steven Vettel

Richard Wallace

Maggi Willard

Elizabeth Yost

Advocates

Bruce Agid

Osvaldo Ancinas

Mary Ann Aronson

Andrea Baker

Collin Barnwell

Alec Bash

Simon Bertrang

Natalie Bonnewit

Ashley Boren

Justin Brickell

Jonathan Bruck

John Buehrens

Lian Chang

Sarita Chawla

Eunice Childs

Lillie Chilen

Alexander Clemens

Stuart Cohen

Mitchell Conner

Kyle Corio

Charmaine Curtis

Hank Dempsey

Annette Dosier

Philip Erickson

Pauline Eveillard

William Fleishhacker

Tom Ford

Paul Fritz

Maureen Futtner

Noah Gaspar

Martin Gellen

Hartmut Gerdes

Hillary Gitelman and Susan McCue

Jeffrey Glickman

Ron Golem

Derek Gordon

Sadie Graham

Claude Gruen

Clifford Ham

Christopher Hawkins

Craig Heckman

Gary Hedden

Chris Heisterkamp

Gregory Hensley

James Hill

Angel Islas

Michael & Megan Janis

Mark Jensen

James Jeong

Dorka Keehn

Kimberly Kelly

Breeze & Steve Kinsey

Dr. Janice Kirsch

Natalie Kitchen

Karen Knowles-Pearce & Norman Pearce

Eliza Koshland

Theodore Kramer

Matthew Kretzer

Ryan Larrabure

Jacopo & Robyn Lenzi

Fred Levinson

Brian Liles

Bob Linscheid

Daniel Livsey

Tom Lockard

Alex Lofton

Nathan Lozier

John Madden

Jason May

Adam Mayberry

Joseph McCarthy

Mike McCarthy

Paul McCarthy

Edward McFarlan

Elizabeth Meier

Grace-Sonia E. Melanio

Amy Meyer

Chris Mitchell

James Morrison

Lester Olmstead-Rose

Diane Oshima

Leo Panian

Anthony Pantaleoni

Stephanie Pascal

Sophie Pepin

Melissa Perez

Sarah Dennis Phillips

Robert & Patricia Raburn

John Rahaim

Laura Rambin

Byron Rhett

Karen Rhodes

Chris Roberts

Roderick Roche

Sarah Rosston

Robert Saliba

Jonathan Scharfman

Edward Schreiner

Jonathan Schuppert

Peter Scott

Spencer Sechler

Kelly Snider

Sujata Srivastava

Peter Straus

Karl Sveinsson

Paulett Taggart

Jaclyn Tandler

Diana Taylor

Susan Taylor

Elizabeth & Martin Terplan

Philip Tiewater

Daniel Vasini

Michael Veale

Marilyn Waldman

Laura Warner

Saebra Waterstraut

Monica Way

Don Weden

Ron Whitmore

Wendy Will

Barbara Wilson

Katrina Wilson

Paul Workman

Lori Yamauchi

Jessica Zenk & Kevin Armstrong

Affinity Groups

SPUR Urban Infrastructure Council

The SPUR Urban Infrastructure Council (UIC) connects SPUR business members from architecture, engineering, and construction firms with significant infrastructure interests on a monthly basis to discuss large-scale infrastructure projects.

Co-Chairs

  • Ben Tripousis, HNTB
  • Carsten Voecker, Plant Construction
  • Sarah Young, Gensler

Arup

BKF Engineers

Cahill Contractors

Comcast

DIALOG Design

DWS

Gensler

Hart Howerton Architects Design

Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co.

HNTB Corporation

HOK

JRDV Architects, Inc.

Kohn Pedersen Fox

Lendlease

Pankow Builders Ltd.

Perkins+Will

Plant Construction Company, L.P.

San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD)

Sherwood Design Engineers

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

Steinberg Hart

Suffolk Construction

SWA Group

Swinerton

The Swig Company

Webcor Builders

WSP

SPUR Planning & Architecture Council

The SPUR Planning and Architecture Council (SPAC) is composed of SPUR business members from planning, architecture, and design firms that meet on a quarterly basis for relevant and timely policy conversations.

Co-Chairs

  • Eri Suzuki, SITELAB urban studio
  • Jeffrey Till, Studio Till

Aedis Architects

CMG Landscape Architecture

David Baker Architects

DIALOG Design

EHDD Architecture

Gensler

Handel Architects, LLP

Herman Coliver Locus Architecture

HKIT Architects

HOK

JRDV Architects, Inc.

Kohn Pedersen Fox

KTGY Group, Inc.

MBH Architects

Mithun

Multistudio

OpenScope Studio

Page

Page & Turnbull

Pelli Clarke & Partners

Perkins+Will

PGAdesign

PlaceWorks

PYATOK Architects

RedRider LLC

RMW Architecture & Interiors

Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey (RHAA Landscape Architecture + Planning)

San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD)

SITELAB urban studio

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB)

Stanford University

Steinberg Hart

Studio Current

Studio-MLA

Studio T-SQ, Inc.

Studio VARA

Suffolk Construction

SWA Group

UrbanBloc

VIA – a la Eastman Studio

Wallace Roberts & Todd (WRT)

Wilson Design Studio (WDSLA)

Woods Bagot Architects

Business Members & Donors

Champion

Amazon

Arup

City and County of San Francisco

Comcast

Genentech

Gensler

Google

HOK

Jordan Real Estate Investments

Kaiser Permanente

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)

Sand Hill Property Company

The Swig Company

Wells Fargo Commercial Banking

 
Guardian

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David Bonowitz, Structural Engineer

Cade Cannedy, Climate Resilient Communities

Coblentz, Patch, Duffy and Bass

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Lydia Tan

Vice Chair

Ariane Coleman Hogan

HR Lead

Jaye Bailey

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Lindsay Baker

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David Friedman

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Cynthia Wong

Officers

Daniel Cedeño

Ed Harrington

Carl Shannon

 

Directors

Jay Bradshaw

Shiyama Clunie

Sam Cobbs

Lynette Dias

John Diffenderfer

Oz Erickson

Don Falk

Sally Ann Flood

David Hart

Brian Jencek

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Hao Ko

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David Nieh

Shannon Peloquin

Rebecca Prozan

Shakirah Simley

Joe Speicher

Ari Takata-Vasquez

Ben Tripousis

Molly Turner

San Francisco City Advisory Board

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Hao Ko

Vice Chair

Genevieve Cadwalader

 

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Brian Jencek

Dawn Kamalanathan

Dorka Keehn

Gregg Miller

Shannon Peloquin

Rebecca Prozan

Guillermo Rodriguez

Jack Sylvan

Kate White

Lauren Wilson

 

San José City Advisory Board

Chair

Ben Tripousis

Vice Chair

Kathy Duong

 

Members

Anil Babbar

Daniel Cedeño

John Diffenderfer

Gary Dillabough

Shelley Doran

Rosalynn Hughey

Ria Hutabarat Lo

Christine Laing

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Camille Llanes-Fontanilla

Barbara Marshman

Chris Neale

David Nieh

Kristina Raspe

James Reber

Karla Rodriguez Lomax

Jasneet Sharma

Kelly Snider

Leah Toeniskoetter

Geri Wong

Oakland City Advisory Board

Co-Chair

Lynette Dias

Co-Chair

Molly Turner

 

Members

Kim-Mai Cutler

Carolyn Johnson

Andrea Lowe

Jay Murphy

Ari Takata-Vasquez

Chek F. Tang

Amy Tharpe

Lauren Wilson

 

Credits

Credits

Editorial Content

Alicia John-Baptiste

Ren Steen

Project Management
and Art Direction

Lauren Foster

Design

Shawn Hazen

Development

Neelu Bhuman, Andrew Nicholson

Principle Photography

Sergio Ruiz

Additional Photography
and Illustration

Sarah Atkinson

Bruce Damonte - David Baker Architects

EHStock

Mike Flippo

​​David Llyod AECOM San Francisco

Lanny Nguyen

Visit Oakland

Sundry Photography

Samuel Rodriguez

SFMTA

Olivia Smart Photography

Jane Song

Michael Waldrep

Yhelfman

Eli Zigas