The SPUR Regional Strategy
Planning for the Bay Area of 2070
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world’s most innovative and progressive regions, but we face enormous challenges, from the cost of housing to the threat of sea level rise. SPUR has launched a multi-year initiative to envision a more equitable, sustainable and prosperous Bay Area for all — and propose bold strategies to get there.
Lead staff: Benjamin Grant, bgrant@spur.org and Laura Tolkoff, ltolkoff@spur.org
Core Funders of the SPUR Regional Strategy
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Curtis Infrastructure Initiative
Dignity Health
Facebook
Genentech
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Marin Community Foundation
George Miller
Sage Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Stanford University
Additional funding provided by AECOM, Fund for the Environment and Urban Life, Hellman Foundation, Microsoft, the Seed Fund and Stripe.
Featured Publications
San Francisco Bay Shoreline Adaptation Atlas
Working with nature to plan for sea level rise
As the climate continues to change, communities will need to adapt the San Francisco Bay shoreline to rising sea levels. But the Bay’s varied landscapes and overlapping jurisdictions make a coordinated response challenging. The San Francisco Bay Shoreline Adaptation Atlas proposes a new regional planning framework by dividing the 400-mile Bay shoreline into 30 distinct geographic areas that share common physical characteristics and adaptation strategies.
Four Future Scenarios for the San Francisco Bay Area
Planning for the region in the year 2070
This report uses scenario planning to look at four uncertainties that the Bay Area will contend with over the next 50 years: the economy, housing, transportation and the physical form that growth takes. The resulting scenarios serve as “myths of the future,” stories that reveal the potential long-term outcomes of choices made today.
The Bay Area in Crisis: A Call to Action
To solve regional problems, we must think like a region.
Can We Achieve Regionalism?
Learning from past efforts at solving regional issues in the Bay Area
