SPUR Voter Guide Purpose and Process
The SPUR Voter Guide aims to offer objective analysis and advise voters on which measures will deliver real solutions.
For this election, SPUR analyzed local, regional, and state measures related to our policy areas that will appear on San Francisco, San José, and Oakland ballots.
SPUR staff researched and analyzed all ballot measures.
For California and Bay Area measures, a committee of the SPUR Board of Directors reviewed staff research, heard arguments from proponents and opponents of the relevant measures, debated each measure's merits, and provided recommendations to the full SPUR Board for a vote.
For city measures, SPUR’s city advisory boards in San Francisco and Oakland formed the ballot analysis committees. (There were no city measures on the San José ballot this election.) Each committee reviewed staff research, heard arguments from proponents and opponents of relevant measures, debated the merits of each, and provided recommendations to the full SPUR Board for a vote.
The SPUR Board of Directors then affirmed each committee's endorsements by a vote of 50% of members. The SPUR Board can overturn the city advisory boards' recommendations with a 60% vote.
The SPUR Board of Directors voted to adopt positions on the relevant measures on July 7, 2026, July 21, 2026, and August 4, 2026.
Acknowledgments
California and Bay Area Ballot Analysis Committee: Michelle Alba-Chua, Daniel Cedeño, Sally Ann Flood, David Friedman, Ed Harrington, Shannon Peloquin, Carl Shannon, Lydia Tan, Molly Turner
San Francisco Ballot Analysis Committee: Jack Bair, Chris Brown, Genevieve Cadwalader, Shiyama Clunie, Emily Cohen, Kate Collignon, Kelly Dearman, Ed Harrington, Dawn Kamalanathan, Dorka Keehn, Hao Ko, Angus McCarthy, Alicia Murasaki, Shalini Iyer Rana, Guillermo Rodriguez, Ann Silverberg, Ross Stackhouse, Kate White
Oakland Ballot Analysis Committee: Lynette Dias, Jonathan Fearn, Savlan Hauser, Kiran Jain, Carolyn Johnson, Tony Leong, Warren Logan, Andrea Lowe, Nikki Lowy, Jay Murphy, Shannon Peloquin, Ari Takata-Vasquez, Amy Tharpe, Molly Turner, Deanna Van Buren, Lauren Wilson
SPUR Staff: Sarah Atkinson, Colleen Corrigan, Lori Droste, Sam Fishman, Annie Fryman, Julie Hernandez, Michael Lane, Erika McLitus, Nicole Neditch, Sebastian Petty, Ben Rosenfield, Sujata Srivastava, Laura Tolkoff
Editors: Melissa Edeburn, Ren Steen, Colleen Valles
Paid for by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association. Financial disclosures available at sfethics.org.
