SPUR supports providing incentive funds to the 14 school districts participating in the Good Food Purchasing Program, who serve over 940,000 students, which would allow changes to food purchasing that would decrease carbon emissions, water use and pesticide use.

SPUR supports AB 1778, which would require the Department of Transportation to consult the California Healthy Places Index (HPI) prior to the start of highway widening, highway extensions and interchange expansion projects that would facilitate vehicular travel projects to determine if the project area meets the approved HPI score or be denied funding permits and personnel time.

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.

A coalition of organizations committed to environmental justice support Senate Bill 1157 to update the state’s indoor residential water use efficiency standards to reflect the best available data on California’s indoor water use and water efficiency best practices.

SPUR and coalition partners wrote to MTC in favor of a "support and seek amendments" position for SB942 - a bill that would make it easier to sustain free and reduced-cost transit programs.

SPUR supports SB 907, which would establish a non-competitive grant program to expand access to Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) services at all certified farmers’ markets across California.

SPUR participated in a joint letter from six San Francisco Bay Area groups highly engaged in supporting the recovery of the Bay Area's public transit system - SPUR, Seamless Bay Area, TransForm, Bay Area Council, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Joint Venture Silicon Valley - regarding potential funding for transit and fare programs in the upcoming budget, and the importance of encouraging regional coordination and fare integration to help rebuild transit ridership.

California's parking cash-out law requires certain employers who offer employees subsidized parking to offer those employees the option to take the cash subsidy instead of a parking space. This bill would require that lessors specify the value of parking to make it easier for employers to follow the parking cash-out law.

SPUR, together with a broad coalition of advocates, submitted policy principles to guide the development of MTC's regional transit-oriented communities (TOC) policy.

SPUR is supporting Assemblymember Friedman's bill to create speed safety camera pilot programs in 6 cities including Oakland, San Francisco, and San José.

SPUR recently supported Senator Becker's Seamless Transit Transformation Act (SB 917).

SPUR has written to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) asking that it clarify, as it did in 2010, that the proposed updated CEQA thresholds of significance for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, if adopted, will apply prospectively only.

SPUR joined the ClimatePlan network in urging the California Transportation Commission to fully align the Caltrans State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) funding guidelines with the state's newly adopted Climate Action Plan for Transportation Investments (CAPTI).

SPUR supports investments outlined in the March 3, 2022 agenda for the Senate Budget Subcommittee 3 on Health and Human Services related to increasing access to the food safety net and strengthening the support that the safety net provides.