SPUR supports the proposed Food Purchasing Standards and Department Goals ordinance. The ordinance outlines San Francisco's hospitals and jails goals for improving food purchasing over the next five years based on the Good Food Purchasing standards.

SPUR endorses the UCSF Parnassus Heights Comprehensive Plan

SPUR applauded MTC's focus on maintaining existing transportation infrastructure and funding low-cost, high-performing transit projects.SPUR called on MTC to deliver more coordinated regional transit connections and noted that the current proposal achieves less than two-thirds of the state-manded greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Finally, SPUR called on MTC to move the proposed Caltrain extension to downtown San Francisco into phase I.

SPUR joins with eighteen members of the San Francisco Vision Zero Coalition, to call for alternatives to police enforcement to curb dangerous driving behavior. San Francisco must end severe and fatal traffic crashes without harming Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.

SPUR pushes Metropolitan Transportation Commission Transit Recovery Task Force to take immediate steps towards an equitable and seamless new network

SFMTA’s Transportation Recovery Plan elevates social equity and consistent evaluation and adjustment. SFMTA makes clear that bold action will be needed to minimize further unacceptable health, economic, and quality of life impacts. SPUR strongly supports this approach as the agency continues to temporarily repurpose street space as necessary to maintain public health and maximize safe mobility for the greatest number of residents.

At the June 15 San José City Council Meeting, city staff proposed a cap on downtown infrastructure impact fees that would have doubled the current amount. Because a new fee would be unlikely to be adopted until after January of 2023, SPUR submitted a letter recommending that a temporary moratorium on infrastructure fees be adopted until at least that time, especially for loan underwriting purposes.

SPUR believes that a city’s budget is one of the clearest statements of its priorities and as such it should reflect the city’s values. Amidst this uncertainty SPUR has offered a Budget Priorities Evaluation Framework to Council to help guide deliberations

COVID-19 has accelerated the urgency of determining how to best support human and economic activity, particularly on main streets and commercial corridors. SPUR recommends actions for cities to undertake immediately to assist businesses in opening promptly following the gradual lifting of shelter-in-place restrictions.

SPUR, the Bay Area Council and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group sent a letter to Governor Newsom urging him to stay on course and implement SB 743 on July 1, 2020, as scheduled.

COVID-19 has accelerated the urgency of determining how to best support human and economic activity, particularly on main streets and commercial corridors. SPUR recommends actions for cities to undertake immediately to assist businesses in opening promptly following the gradual lifting of shelter-in-place restrictions.

SPUR supports Supervisor Peskin's legislation, with Planning staff's recommended modifications, to streamline the approvals and permitting processes and reduce fees for small and mid-sized businesses. This was a smart and important effort before the pandemic – and it is all the more critical today that the city provide supports to businesses seeking to start up and remain viable in our retail corridors across the city.