2018

Annual

Report Introduction How do we: SPUR’s Agenda for > Bring down the cost of housing? Change > Overcome growing income inequality? 1. Regional Planning > Give people better ways to get Concentrate growth inside existing cities. around the region? 2. Community Planning > Get our cities ready to face climate Build great neighborhoods. change? 3. Housing Make it affordable to live here.

Since 1910, SPUR has worked to 4. Transportation identify the root causes of the Bay Give people better ways to get where they Area’s biggest urban problems and need to go. put into place solutions that will 5. Economic Development work. Lay the foundations of economic prosperity — for everyone. This is a long game. Efforts that we began in the 20th century are now 6. Sustainability + Resilience bearing fruit in the 21st. Reduce our ecological footprint and make our cities resilient. Likewise, the problems we are tackling today will not be solved in 7. Good Government a single year or election cycle. Build the capacity of the public sector.

2 Introduction Real change takes time.

Throughout this annual report, case studies show how the achievements of each year add up to long-term progress over time. Case Study The Transbay Transit Center

Extending Caltrain to a new regional transit center in downtown San Francisco and building a mixed-use high-rise neighborhood around it.

Location: Project initiated: Opportunity: hundreds of thousands of people. SPUR San Francisco 1990 There is currently no direct commuter proposed building a new transit center to train from Silicon Valley to downtown San connect Caltrain to other regional transit Francisco; bringing Caltrain to central San and making it the hub of a new jobs Francisco would improve commutes for center for the city and region.

Timeline:

1960s–1980s 1990s 2000s Outcome: What’s Next: The Transbay Transit Center will open The transit center will initially serve AC 1962: SPUR first calls to extend Peninsula 1990: SPUR advocates extending Caltrain 1999–2001: Voters approve the 2013: SPUR’s Taking Down a Freeway within a year. Many new buildings in Transit, Muni, SamTrans and several other rail service to downtown San Francisco to downtown from its terminus on construction of a new transit center, to Reconnect a Neighborhood offers a the station are finished or nearing bus services. Now the focus turns to the after San Mateo County pulls out of the King Street and replacing the Transbay and two years later, the Transbay Joint modern vision to tear down Interstate completion. When done, the new final piece: extending Caltrain (and, on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District. Terminal with a new multi-modal transit Powers Authority forms to plan, design 280 and bring Caltrain and high-speed development will include 6 million square the same tracks, high-speed rail) to the center to serve Caltrain, AC Transit, Muni and build it. rail tracks into the Transbay Transit feet of new office space; 4,500 new station. SPUR will continue to work on 1974: The opening of the BART tube and other services. We envision the Center underground. The San Francisco homes, including 1,300 affordable units; how we can fund this major investment causes a dramatic drop in transbay proposed hub as the centerpiece for a 2006: The Board of Supervisors adopts Planning Department begins to study the 250,000 square feet of new retail in the in what will be a generational advance in bus ridership. San Francisco’s Transbay new neighborhood. the Transbay Redevelopment Plan, new proposals. transit center and surrounding blocks; regional transit. Bus Terminal and the elevated ramps increasing height limits to allow dense three new parks, including the 5-acre connecting it to the Bay Bridge begin a 1993: SPUR convenes a task force development around the proposed transit 2017: SPUR’s Caltrain Corridor Vision rooftop park; and all new streetscapes for long, slow decline. to study the extension of Caltrain to center. Plan argues for significant investments to blocks around. The new neighborhood downtown. A new station location at make Caltrain an urban metro system and will serve as a model for how to build a 1985: San Francisco’s Downtown Plan Second and Mission streets is chosen the 2007: SPUR helps the Joint Powers provides a path to grow daily ridership high-rise district around transit. calls for directing high-rise growth into following year. Authority set up a design competition. from 60,000 seats a day to 312,000 seats the South of Market area, with the tallest The winning design features, incidentally, a day. heights around the Transbay Terminal. 1995: SPUR hosts 12 students from a park on the roof and light columns around the world in the EDAW Summer bringing sunlight deep into the building. 2018: The Salesforce Transit Center Student Program, which produces the Tower adjoining the station — San Transbay District Neighborhood Vision 2010–2011: The old terminal is Francisco’s tallest tower — welcomes its Program. The plan envisions a transit demolished and construction of the first occupants in January. Voters pass center with a park on the roof, a “light new Transbay Transit Center begins. The Regional Measure 3, co-sponsored by column” bringing sunlight deep into parcels of vacant land formerly occupied SPUR, which includes $325 million for the the building and a totally redeveloped by the old terminal and ramps begin extension of Caltrain to downtown. neighborhood on surrounding blocks. to be sold for development, which will largely finance the new transit center.

6 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 7 Research

To address problems of significant scale with long time frames, we apply a three-part A research process: source 1. We frame the problem by asking good questions.

2. We bring together the best thinkers on the topic, learn from other cities and use a cross- disciplinary approach to generate of new and unexpected ideas.

3. We test the resulting solutions for feasibility and find the best points ideas.of entry to implement them.

9 Research

REPORT FEBRUARY 2017 AUGUST 2017 Room THE Harnessing CALTRAIN for More RETHINKING THE High-Speed Rail How California and its cities can CORRIDOR Corporate use rail to reshape their growth VISION PLAN Campus How to keep the Bay Area’s innovation economy moving

The Next Bay Area Workplace

SPUR’s Housing Agenda for San Jose

The Caltrain Corridor A Housing Agenda Rethinking the Harnessing High-Speed Rail

Vision Plan for San Jose Corporate Campus In connecting the Bay Area to Los Angeles, California high- speed rail will run through cities like Fresno and Bakersfield, Home of the Silicon Valley innovation economy, the Caltrain The Silicon Valley economic miracle has become a housing Many of the most advanced tech companies in the world are which were bypassed when Interstate 5 was built. SPUR’s report Corridor holds much of the Bay Area’s promise and opportunity nightmare. As rents and home prices continue to rise, they stuck in offices from a bygone era. The suburban corporate Harnessing High-Speed Rail looked at how a fast rail network — but its transportation system is breaking down. This year threaten the region’s economic growth, diversity and climate. To campus reinforces dependence on cars, worsening our climate, can reconnect these cities with each other and the coast — SPUR released the Caltrain Corridor Vision Plan, a bold action address this crisis, SPUR released Room for More, our housing our air and our quality of life. Today’s employees want to live improving their economies, revitalizing downtowns and shifting plan to speed up trains and increase capacity by an order of agenda for San Jose, proposing two big ideas: use planning and work in more urban settings. SPUR’s report Rethinking growth back to urban centers. magnitude, allowing Caltrain to carry almost as many people as tools to build 120,000 new housing units and find new the Corporate Campus offered 21 recommendations for how to BART. resources for affordable housing. reinvent the Bay Area workplace.

TODAY 2030

60 mph by car 220 mph by high-speed rail

10 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 11 Case Study The Market and Octavia Plan

Reclaiming a neighborhood for people, not cars.

Location: Project initiated: Opportunity: Neighborhoods Program as a way to San Francisco 1998 The dot-com boom of the 1990s created create agreement up front to guide the tremendous growth pressures in San process of neighborhood change. The Francisco, but most neighborhoods removal of the Central Freeway made had no plan in place to guide that the Market and Octavia neighborhood a growth. SPUR proposed the Better perfect candidate for the new program.

Timeline:

1980s 1990s 2000s Outcome: What’s Next: From 2008 through the end of 2016, Calls for more affordable housing in all 1989: The Loma Prieta earthquake 1998: Mayor Willie Brown agrees to fund 2002: SPUR holds a daylong workshop 2005: SPUR and partner groups hold nearly 2,700 net new housing units were neighborhoods and plans for bus rapid damages the elevated Central Freeway, the Better Neighborhoods Program. The on woonerfs — streets where cars, bikes a design competition for housing added in the plan area; of these, about transit on Van Ness Avenue have spurred a 1950s-era relic that cuts through Market and Octavia area is selected for and pedestrians share the road as equals. prototypes on the very shallow lots left 700 units are affordable. Another 57 the planning department to focus a residential neighborhoods, bringing the program. Market and Octavia residents attend by the freeway removal. The results buildings, totaling roughly 5,100 housing new effort on the blocks around the pollution and crime. Transportation and get inspired to plan new growth for inform the designs that are later built. units, were in the planning department’s intersection of Market and Van Ness. The activists advocate for tearing it down. 1999: The third time it appears on the people, not cars. development pipeline for the plan area as Market Street Hub rezoning will allow for ballot, voters opt to replace the damaged 2008: The Board of Supervisors adopts of late 2017. approximately 1,700 additional housing freeway with a surface boulevard. This 2002–2008: The plan slowly makes its the plan. Groundbreaking in many Public realm improvements include units in the area. frees up 22 parcels in a 7-acre area with way through the public process. SPUR respects, it increases building heights new parks, public plazas, bike lanes, more than a dozen transit connections. advocates at the Planning Commission and densities along Market Street while transit-only lanes and traffic-calming and Board of Supervisors, attending protecting what the planning department measures. more than a dozen public hearings. SPUR called the “fragile virtues” of the members are some of the plan’s most residential neighborhoods. stalwart advocates and attend late-night hearings to voice support.

12 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 13 Education A place

We bring people together for honest dialogue, providing a place to explore, learn, debate and for understand. essential conver- sations.

15 Education

This year we held 232 public events and 47 events for members in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland. Our programs included:

The Color of Law Next Stop: Diridon What Will a Trump Presidency Mean Author Richard Rothstein and New Exhibition on what San Jose can learn York Times writer Emily Badger on from the best practices and cautionary for San Francisco? the enduring pattern of residential tales of rail stations around the world. Assemblymember David Chiu, San segregation and racial policies. Francisco Chronicle Editor in Chief The Divided States Audrey Cooper and San Francisco Foundation CEO Fred Blackwell on civic Making Cities Greater of America and political life in a new era. Than Ever Academics, authors and artists on art and Dan Doctoroff, former New York City design as vehicles for activism in the face deputy mayor, on post-9/11 policies that of the increasing militarization of our shaped the NYC we know today. southern border.

r Transportation Study Tour Oakland Problem Solvers to Europe Series

To prepare for the coming convergence of high-speed rail, SPUR launched a series of convenings to bring East Bay BART and other transit services at San Jose’s Diridon Station, business leaders together with department heads from the SPUR took policy-makers and transit agency leaders on a City of Oakland to discuss the city’s biggest challenges and help tour of high-speed rail stations in the Netherlands and troubleshoot solutions. Questions included how to improve the France. The trip — funded by the John S. and James L. city’s building permit process, how to engage the community Knight Foundation — helped shape a more ambitious and in planning processes and how to finance improvements in integrated vision for the station and area development. underinvested areas of the city.

Resilient by Design: Transit + Design Workshop

Bay Area Challenge What would it look like if we put people at the center of transit planning — if we designed a welcoming transit system After Hurricane Sandy, New York’s Rebuild by Design project grounded in the needs and preferences of riders? To help made bold proposals for strengthening resilience to climate transportation planners understand riders as customers, SPUR change. This year the Bay Area version brought designers, hosted its third annual Transit + Design Workshop. Participants engineers, cities and residents together to envision proactive learned new tools, including how to use a customer journey plans for vulnerable sites around the Bay. The challenge map and conduct a community listening session. concluded in May 2018 with 10 implementable design ideas. SPUR served on the executive committee and research advisory committee.

16 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 17 Case Study Diridon Station

Seizing the opportunity of high-speed rail to transform acres of parking into a new downtown neighborhood and job center.

Location: Project initiated: Opportunity: in planned rail investments and 240 San Jose 2016 In the next decade, BART and high- acres of developable land around it, speed rail will begin service to San Jose’s Diridon represents a major transportation Diridon Station, where they will connect and city-building opportunity. SPUR to Caltrain, the Altamont Corridor Express is promoting a coordinated approach (ACE), Santa Clara Valley Transportation among transit agencies to ensure that Authority (VTA) light rail, Amtrak and Diridon realizes a bold vision and delivers bus service. With more than $10 billion world-class transit services.

Timeline:

Up to 2016 2016 2017 SPUR’s Goals for Diridon: What’s Next: > With transit agencies and other SPUR will continue to advocate for global 2007: The alignment is selected for February 2016: The California High- downtown San Jose (including Diridon July 2017: SPUR leads a study tour partners, commit to a shared vision for best practices through a symposium for a proposed high-speed rail system Speed Rail Authority shifts course and Station) and on to Santa Clara. to high-speed rail stations in the a station where transit connections are local government officials, transit leaders connecting Southern and Northern plans for its first passenger-carrying Netherlands and France for South Bay easy, comfortable and quick and transit and the public, as well as through our California. The chosen alignment through service to take a northern route, from March 2017: SPUR hosts Next Stop: elected officials, transit agency leaders service is frequent, fast and seamlessly participation on the BART Community the Pacheco Pass includes a stop in San Kern County to the Bay Area, rather than Diridon, an exhibition highlighting best and developers. integrated with the regional and state Working Group, the High-Speed Rail Jose. south from Merced to Los Angeles. San practices and cautionary tales from rail rail systems. Community Working Group and the Jose will become one of the first stations station and station area redevelopment November 2017: Based on SPUR’s > Maximize development capacity and Diridon Station Area Advisory Group. 2008: California voters pass a state bond to open. projects around the world. Through the recommendation for a coordinated prioritize high-density employment measure to fund the high-speed rail spring and summer, more than a dozen approach from visioning to uses in the station area. project. The law allocates $9.95 billion to October 2016: SPUR hosts a design SPUR programs focus on station and operations, the VTA begins to plan > Add housing and social, cultural and begin construction. charrette for transit agency leaders, in station area development. facility development at Diridon as a educational uses to support round-the- partnership with the German Marshall collaborative process among the VTA, clock activity. 2012: The California High-Speed Rail Fund, to look at international examples of May 2017: SPUR completes its research the City of San Jose, Caltrain and the > Design new development to make Authority and Caltrain agree to develop a high-speed rail station design and station on international rail stations and California High-Speed Rail Authority. transit successful and put people first, blended system in which the two services area development. publishes 17 rules for a great train station. Project goals mention “seamless supporting walkability, creating great will share tracks and stations. passenger connections,” another SPUR public gathering places and building November 2016: Santa Clara County June 2017: Google announces plans recommendation. connections between neighborhoods. voters pass Measure B, endorsed and to build a major employment center at strongly supported by SPUR, providing Diridon Station. SPUR publishes guiding $1.5 billion for capital construction of the principles for Diridon’s transit service, extension of BART from Berryessa into governance and development.

18 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 19 Advocacy

We advocate for the cities of the Bay Area to live up to their highest potential and help build the civic will A to act. catalyst for change.

21 Advocacy

More Housing in r San Jose Mayor’s Housing A Vision for a r East Bay to San Francisco San Francisco Plan State Rail Network Transportation Capacity Study

After nearly two years of controversy and amendments, the After SPUR published Room for More, our housing agenda for Caltrans released its draft California State Rail Plan 2040 at Crossing the Bay has become a struggle whether you’re riding late Mayor Ed Lee signed the HOME-SF density bonus program San Jose, Mayor Sam Liccardo released his 15-point housing the end of 2017. The plan puts forth an ambitious vision for a BART, taking a transbay bus or driving. The Metropolitan into law. The program encourages more affordable housing plan, which sets a goal to build 25,000 new homes — including future where passenger rail is the first choice for a large share Transportation Commission’s Bay Area Core Capacity Transit by allowing new projects greater density and building height at least 10,000 affordable homes — over the next five years of travel across the state. It proposes a “pulse system” of timed Study revealed that providing enough capacity and making in return for a larger number of affordable units.SPUR’s years to help address the region’s housing crisis. The mayor’s plan connections that would eliminate long waits and suggests rail travel times reliable would require a solution of significant scale, of advocacy and education helped make HOME-SF part of the incorporates many of SPUR’s recommendations and identifies projects that would connect most communities in California such as adding a second rail crossing. The study represents the housing conversation. strategies to make measurable progress toward new housing. every hour. SPUR’s work on stations, capital planning, rider first official review policyof ideas SPUR has been advocating experience and ticketing will build out the plan in the Bay Area. for years, such as using bridge tolls and transit fares to manage demand during peak hours. Federal Support for A Strategy for Caltrain Electrification Bay Area Clean Air and Oakland’s Public Land Climate Protection Plan Central SoMa Plan Soldiers On Switching the Caltrain fleet from diesel to electric power is an Many have asked how Oakland’s publicly owned land might be Key to San Francisco’s future growth, the Central SoMa Plan essential upgrade to the Bay Area transportation network. After In April 2017, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District put to use to create affordable housing. But prioritizing one use persists on its path to approval more than six years after the a high-profile political battle in early 2017, Caltrain secured adopted a major new climate action strategy that will move the for public land could pit affordability against other imperatives planning process started. The plan seeks to allow 7,500 more federal funding and will receive $647 million to electrify and region closer to attaining its goals for cleaner air and reduced like generating funding for city services and creating well- housing units and 50,000 more jobs in a critical location modernize its fleet. Caltrain also began writing a business plan carbon emissions. SPUR reviewed drafts of the plan — which paying local jobs. SPUR advocated for a balanced plan that adjacent to regional transit and the Financial District — along — a SPUR recommendation — to ensure that the railroad thrives aligns with the recommendations in our report Fossil-Free Bay weighs these considerations citywide instead of making with one of the most ambitious packages of public benefits ever once it’s electrified. Area — and supported the final version at the adoption hearing. decisions parcel by parcel. We convened a conversation with proposed in the Bay Area. SPUR has been a supporter of the local stakeholders to explore the issue. vision and will push for plan approval in 2018.

22 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 23 Advocacy

Big Win: State Passes ridership, improve the agency’s fiscal footing and serve BART, which opens at Berryessa in 2019. SPUR supported this effort 15-Bill Housing Package to make transit work in the South Bay’s car-oriented landscape. We believe Next Network will move the region toward the goal 2017 was the year for housing in California. Governor Brown of growth without gridlock. signed a record-setting package of 15 bills designed to address many of the causes behind our state’s housing shortage. SPUR was among the advocates that brought the housing shortage and affordability issues to the forefront for state leadership BART Silicon Valley and the public. South Bay leaders have worked to bring BART to downtown San Jose for decades. As the project development process continued this year, SPUR advocated for an integrated system Making Clipper a Seamless that will give people a better way to get around, open up System for Transit Riders new labor markets, and support housing and job growth. We weighed in on key decisions such as station location and The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is developing tunneling methodologies. Clipper 2.0, the next generation of the Bay Area’s transit fare payment system. Currently, each transit operator sets its own Celebrating fare policy, resulting in a hodgepodge of prices and discounts. f San Francisco Seawall SPUR advocated for the Clipper redesign to modernize and integrate fare policy for the Bay Area in order to reduce rider Resiliency Project Five Years confusion, encourage transit use and maximize investment in Built over a hundred years ago, San Francisco’s seawall is in Clipper. of SPUR need of significant improvements towithstand the next major earthquake, as well as future sea level rise. SPUR sits on the in San Jose steering committee for the Seawall Resiliency Project, which Next Network Redesigns will propose a $350 million general obligation bond for the 2017 marked the five-year anniversary November 2018 ballot to fund an immediate seismic retrofit. VTA’s Transit Network of SPUR’s work in San Jose. In Phase II of the project will undertake more extensive planning that time, we have published nine for long-term climate resilience and adaptation. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) approved reports laying out comprehensive the Next Network, a systemwide redesign to grow transit recommendations to transform San Jose from a good city to a great city. We have successfully advocated for improvements to the transit system, the passage of an accessory dwelling unit ordinance, the establishment of an urban agriculture incentive zone, and modifications to make the city’s planned urban villages more amenable to mixed-use development. We have helped the urbanist voices in San Jose get louder, and we’ve engaged deeply in the community through hundreds of forums, convenings and tours. We launched in San Jose as an experiment. Five years later, many in the community are self-proclaimed urbanists and we are part of an important conversation about the future of the city, its neighbors and the region.

24 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 25 Case Study A Downtown Oakland for Everyone

Planning to ensure that all Oaklanders experience the benefits of economic growth.

Location: Project initiated: Opportunity: Plan provides a great opportunity to ask: Downtown 2015 For the first time in decades, Oakland is Is there a way to harness this growth Oakland preparing a new Downtown Plan. As a to help pay for a better quality of life high-rise job center with multiple BART for all Oaklanders? SPUR proposed five stations, downtown Oakland is already a big ideas for guiding future growth key hub in the Bay Area — and a recent and making sure the benefits extend to wave of investment is bringing thousands everyone. of new jobs and residents. The Downtown

Timeline:

2015 2016 2017 2018 SPUR’s Goals for Downtown Oakland: What’s Next: As the plan moves toward completion in February 2015: SPUR launches work in January 2016: SPUR moves into 1544 2017: In response to community 2018: Oakland restarts its planning Big Idea 1: Add 50,000 more jobs in 2020, SPUR will weigh in on iterations Oakland. Broadway in downtown Oakland. concerns, Oakland hires consultants process with a strengthened focus on downtown, and create pathways to get and continue to advance our policy ideas to conduct a racial and equity analysis equity. people into them. for how growth and equity can go hand September 2015: SPUR publishes A February 2016: We publish Designing the of the downtown specific planning Big Idea 2: Bring 25,000 more residents in hand. Downtown for Everyone: Shaping the Bay Area’s Second Transbay Rail Crossing, process. SPUR continues to advocate to downtown at a range of incomes, and Future of Downtown Oakland. We which makes the case that transporting for a downtown growth plan that will enable existing residents to remain. propose that the best path forward for more people across the Bay more benefit all. downtown is to plan for more jobs and quickly will enable Oakland to emerge Big Idea 3: Set clear and consistent rules housing — and to shape that growth as a stronger economic hub. Ideas for growth to make downtown a better so downtown remains a place that include creating a one-seat ride between place for everyone. welcomes all Oaklanders. Oakland and Silicon Valley and extending high-speed rail service to Oakland. Big Idea 4: Create inviting public spaces and streets as part of an active public September–October 2015: The City realm. of Oakland undertakes a specific plan March 2016: The city releases two plan for downtown Oakland. SPUR hosts alternatives. SPUR comments that both Big Idea 5: Make it easy to get to and the official launch with a series of options amount to a downzoning of around downtown through an expanded design charrettes in our soon-to-open downtown and calls for a third alternative transportation network. downtown office. with more intensive development.

26 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 27 Case Study Seamless Transit

Making the Bay Area’s two dozen transit operators function as one unified system.

Location: Project initiated: Opportunity: system, which contributes to stagnating San Francisco 2015 The Bay Area has 27 different transit ridership rates. As a first step in tackling Bay Area operators — far more than other this problem, SPUR is focusing advocacy metropolitan areas — resulting in efforts on simply making it easier for confusing maps, service gaps and poor people to use the public transit we planning. Rather than one regional already have. network, transit riders face a disjointed

Timeline:

2014–2015 2016 2017 2018 What’s Next: Governance changes would improve 2014: SPUR holds a workshop on May 2015: SPUR poses three questions to 2016: SPUR and the Metropolitan 2017: SPUR organizes a course on design 2018: Conversations on seamless the management and planning of the transit fragmentation, bringing together help prioritize transit integration: Transportation Commission (MTC) launch thinking for transit operators, led by payments and fares move forward; the transportation system for the 21st transit agencies, businesses and policy a regional transit map and wayfinding Stanford’s design school. Staff from state holds its first integrated-payments > Will the customer experience improve? century. SPUR is investigating proposals stakeholders to identify ways to unify project. Led by MTC, a team made up SPUR, MTC, the Silicon Valley Community congress in May. SPUR prepares to > Does the proposed integration shift for how to structure a truly coordinated transit services in the region. of cities, transit agencies, SPUR and the Foundation and several Bay Area transit publish recommendations on transit fare market share away from private autos system, learning from global examples. Silicon Valley Community Foundation operators learn to plan and design transit policy reform to make seamless transit toward transit? Potential big ideas include a regional rail April 2015: SPUR publishes the report begins developing a regional transit map with a focus on the customer. payments work across the Bay Area and > Will it help make better places and organization that would amalgamate the Seamless Transit, which calls for and a unified mapping system that will California. cities? numerous rail systems that could share standardizing transit fares across the work across the region. tracks. Another vision worth exploring region, designing transit hubs to make The questions help to inform several is a regional organization that would transfers easy and considering the needs initiatives. bring together mobility providers to set of multiple operators when deciding standards for payments and routes and how to design the transit network. The manage a streamlined app or interface report receives significant national media for customers. attention. “Seamless transit” becomes a regional catchphrase.

28 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 29 Fiscal Year President’s 2017–2018 Letter

Membership 2,502,372 35% Special Events Income 1,484,608 The future of our country depends on its cities. 7,221,084 21% 100%/Total Cities are where we will invent the economy of the future. Where we will cultivate new movements for social change. Where we will create a way of life that is sustainable and Earned resilient in the face of climate change.

Revenues In this unsettled moment of American history, the Bay Area has a special role to 818,589 play. This collection of cities stands as a beacon of an America that is open, tolerant, 11% welcoming, innovative and practical. Grants 2,415,516 This is a time for leadership. We need to get our house in order. We may not be able to 33% control what happens in Washington, but we have a lot of control over what happens here. Let us resolve to overcome our housing shortage so we can live up to our values of openness to immigration once again. Let us resolve to build a world-class transit system so we can provide everyone who lives here with a civilized way of getting around. Let us resolve to overcome the divides of race and class so that all people in this region can benefit from our culture of economic innovation.

SPUR has a mission: to create an inclusive, sustainable and prosperous metropolis that can serve as a model for the world. Our role is to show how to get there and build the collective will to do it. To the members, funders and supporters of SPUR, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your confidence in our work. Now, more than ever, the Bay Area needs a group like SPUR that strives to be both highly visionary and highly practical. We could not be doing this work without you.

Sincerely,

Gabriel Metcalf President and CEO Expenses Policy, programs 7,198,898 Administration and publications 100%/Total 604,760 5,630,440 8% 78%

Development 963,698 13%

30 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 31 SPUR Annual Contributors Annette L. Billingsley & Terry Benefactors Urban Leaders Michael Gross N. Teresa Rea Bergmann Jim Grubb Andrew Robbins & Kate Katherine August-deWilde & David Council SPUR gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions made by the following Idit Harlev Bedford Jim Chappell deWilde Adam Abrons individuals and organizations. We apologize in advance for any omissions or Ed Harrington Jason Rodriguez Rob Evans & Terry Micheau Jim Adams inaccuracies to this listing and will publish corrections in a future issue of The David Baker Nina Hatvany Daniel Ruth Bruce Agid Urbanist. This list represents gifts made in 2017. William D. Evers* Andy & Sara Barnes Alfred E. & Ruth Heller Jim Salata Michael Alexander & Dianna Diane Filippi Stanley D. Herzstein & Lynn John M. Sanger Joe Brown & Jacinta McCann Waggoner Altshuler Bry Sarte Linda Jo Fitz Claudine Cheng Verda Alexander Dennis Hopkins John Schlesinger Jean S. Fraser & Geoff Gordon-Creed Teresa Alvarado Special Thanks Hellman Foundation Jack P.H. Chin & Brooke Facente Chin James C. Hormel Mark Schlesinger & Christine Heron Arts The Herbst Foundation David A. Friedman & Paulette J. Boris Dramov & Bonnie Fisher George Hume Russell to Our Regional Jaye Bailey Meyer Aaron J. Johnson Carl Shannon Strategy Donors Jewish Community Endowment Fund Oz Erickson & Rina Alcalay Alvin H. Baum, Jr. Bryan E. Grunwald Ron & Barbara Kaufman Chi-Hsin Shao Chan Zuckerberg Initiative The John & Marcia Goldman Diane Filippi & Ephraim Hirsch Chris Beckmann Margaret V. Sheehan Anne Halsted & Wells Whitney Burton Kendall & Sally Towse Foundation Alan Billingsley Clarence E. Heller Charitable Linda Jo Fitz David & Barbara Kimport Debbie & Michael Shepherd David & Jane Hartley Annette L. Billingsley Foundation The John S. and James L. Knight David A. Friedman & Paulette J. Michael H. Kossman Satej Soman Foundation Vincent & Amanda Hoenigman Steven Bills Soren Spies Curtis Infrastructure Initiative Meyer Danielle Kramer Ben Blumenfeld & Jocelyn The Koret Foundation James Jeong David H. Kremer Daniel Spoonhower Dignity Health Anne Halsted & Wells Whitney Ross Geraldine Steinberg Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Toby & Jerry Levine Susan Leal Facebook David & Jane Hartley Robin Bot-Miller Alexandra Lee Robert Steinberg Metropolitan Transportation Robert Steinberg & Alice Erber Vincent & Amanda Hoenigman Deborah Boyer Fund for the Environment & Urban Frankie Lee Charlie Stigler Commission Stephen & Sarah Taber Chet Brians Life Nicholas Josefowitz Debra Leifer Bill Stotler New Belgium Family Foundation Eliza Brown & Hal Candee Peter Tannen & David Strachan John Kriken Toby & Jerry Levine Erik Strahm Genentech Summer Bundy & Kenneth Northern California Community Loan Lisbet Sunshine Hellman Foundation Brooks Walker III Richard & Marilyn Lonergan Norton Shirley Lewis* Fund Mark Liang Luke Swartz The John S. and James L. Knight Terry Micheau & Rob Evans Dennise M. Carter Oram Foundation, Inc. Ellen Lou Roselyne C. Swig Foundation Michaela Cassidy & Terry George A. Miller & Janet McKinley Jack Sylvan Pisces Foundation Whitney Kenneth Aidan Lowney Marin Community Foundation Becky Morgan Jim Chappell Clark Manus Lydia Tan Saint Francis Foundation George Miller Bill & Dewey Rosetti Irene Chavez Susan Marcus Riaz Taplin San Francisco Foundation Madeline Chun Michael Teitz Sage Foundation Sean & Claudine Ryan Marsha Maytum S.H. Cowell Foundation Anagha Dandekar Clifford Paul S. McCauley & Joan A. Elizabeth & Martin Terplan Stanford University Paul Sack Silicon Valley Community Foundation Christopher Collins Kugler William Laney Thornton Dan & Jackie Safier Jeffrey Current Robert McGrew Irene Lindbeck Tibbits Toeniskoetter Family Foundation Foundations & Charles & Trudy Salter Edward Davis Dianne McKenna Will Travis TomKat Foundation Patrick McNerney Jeffrey Truesdell Grant Support Gene Schnair & Abby Sadin Schnair Robert Davis The Walter and Elise Haas Fund Lynette Dias Steven Merrill Jeffrey Tumlin 11th Hour Project Elizabeth Seifel Yerba Buena Community Benefit Thang Do Susan Millhouse Molly S. Turner Alameda Health System Foundation District Stephen Silberstein Jacob Donham Beverly Mills Erin Victor Applied Materials Foundation John & Gussie Stewart Gary & Jane Facente Michael Molesky Pat Waite Sandy Mori Elñora Tena Webb Clarence E. Heller Charitable V. Fei Tsen & Wayne Lew Don Falk Legacy Society Laura & Dan Fingal-Surma Tomiquia Moss Fran Weld Foundation Susan C. Weeks & David Coulter Individuals who have included SPUR in Bret Firebaugh James R. Musbach Jennifer Wolch Clif Bar Family Foundation Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey their estate Frannie Fleishhacker Jeanne Myerson Eric Womeldorff The David and Lucile Packard Michael Alexander & Dianna Rod Freebairn-Smith & Janet Adhi Nagraj Kulapat Yantrasast Foundation Waggoner Crane Jonathan Nieder Jacqueline L. Young East Bay Community Foundation Doris Fisher Stephenie Northington Audrey Zagazeta North Baker* Gaia Fund Casey Fromson Kasia Parker Rasheq Zarif Andy & Sara Barnes Robert Gamble John J. Parman Ben Zotto Good Ventures Alvin H. Baum Lisa & Douglas Goldman Jennifer Raike

32 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT * deceased * deceased 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 33 Urban Infrastructure Twitter (PG&E) Jacobs Presidio Trust Wilson Meany LLC Irene Chavez Council Uber Perkins+Will Kimley-Horn ROMA Design Group WSP Sr. Vice President Area Manager Lowney Architecture San Francisco Municipal Zendesk Kaiser AECOM WeWork Plant Construction Company MBH Architects Transportation Agency San Jose Board, SPUR Aedis Architects Zendesk Prado Group (SFMTA) Mercy Housing Zoox Prologis San Francisco Public ARCADIS Mithun | Solomon Utilities Commission Recology Arup MJM Management Group (SFPUC) Brown and Caldwell Business Members & Related California Nelson\Nygaard Siemens Consulting Associates Cahill Contractors Donors San Francisco Giants Steinberg Hart Nibbi Brothers General San Francisco International Airport Sutter Health/CPMC Gensler Alaska Airlines Contractors TMG Partners Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Arup San Jose State University One Vassar LLC Company Trammell Crow Residential Autodesk Santa Clara County Association of Parkmerced Investors Uber HNTB Corporation Realtors Properties Bank of America UCSF HOK Shorenstein Properties LLC Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Boston Properties Pittman LLP U.S. Bank Jacobs Signature Development Group BRIDGE Housing Corporation Port of Oakland Westfield San Francisco What civic project or initiative brings you the most hope for the future? Kimley-Horn Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Port of San Francisco Centre Carmel Partners Training and opening up opportunities Perkins+Will Sobrato Development Organization Cisco Systems for at-risk youth. The Silicon Valley Plant Construction Company Suffolk Construction AC Transit Holland & Knight LLP Postmates Organization is doing a really good job Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP AGI Avant Hunt Construction Group Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP San Jose Water Company The Swig Company with Strive San Jose, and John Hogan is Comerica Airbnb Jamestown, L.P. Riaz doing a great job with his organization, Santa Clara County Transportation Swinerton Builders - San Francisco Alexandria Real Estate Equities Jewish Senior Living Group San Francisco Department of Deloitte Teen Force, which helps disadvantaged AlfaTech The John Stewart Company Human Resources Authority (VTA) Tishman Speyer youth from local high schools secure a job Dignity Health Arent Fox JRDV Architects San Francisco Department of Siemens Public Health with a local employer and then continue Turner Construction Company AvalonBay Communities Keyser Marston Associates Facebook San Francisco Human Services on to college. They’ve placed some of SOM Webcor Builders BCCI Construction Kier & Wright Agency their interns with us at Kaiser. Federal Realty Investment Trust Bentall Kennedy Lane Partners, LLC Steinberg Hart Wells Fargo & Co. San Francisco Office of the BKF Engineers Levi Strauss & Co. FivePoint Treasurer & Tax Collector What one thing truly embodies the spirit Suffolk Construction Yerba Buena Community Benefit Brown and Caldwell Lighthouse Public Affairs San Francisco State University of your neighborhood? Forest City CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) Lyft Turner Construction Co. District San Francisco Travel The young people downtown. You can Genentech Charles Pankow Builders, Ltd. Martin Building Company San Jose Water Company be sitting next to someone who looks Webcor Builders Charles Salter Associates Maximus Real Estate Partners Gensler Santa Clara Valley like a kid but is working on a biotech WSP 11 West Partners CHS Consulting Group Mill Creek Residential Transportation Authority module or looking at how to use Bitcoin Google Adobe Systems CIM Group - Downtown Oakland Mission Bay Development (VTA) CMG Landscape Architecture Group, LLC Sierra Maestra Properties for the future. They know they might not Gould Evans AECOM Cox Castle & Nicholson, LLP Municipal Executives Simpson Gumpertz & Heger be the next Zuckerberg, but they’re not Civic Tech Council Association Hathaway Dinwiddie Aedis Architects David Baker Architects Solomon Cordwell Buenz dissuaded by the odds. That spirit is really Nick Podell Company Airbnb ARCADIS Deutsche Asset Management Stanford University Parking & engaging. HNTB Corporation Northern California Carpenters Dropbox Transportation Services Autodesk Bank of the West Regional Council (NCCRC) HOK Eastdil Secured Steelcase Which SPUR activity excites you most? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Oakland Athletics Dropbox Economic & Planning Systems SummerHill Housing Group The board retreat. I like the diversity of the Jordan Real Estate Investments Office of the Controller, City & Brisbane Baylands EHDD Architecture Technology Credit Union different boards coming together. I love Facebook County of San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Brookfield Environmental Science TEF Design the fact that we talk big-picture strategy Ogden Contract Interiors Google Associates TPG Capital, L.P. and yet we get granular, thinking, “Okay, The Kapor Center for Social Impact Cahill Contractors Old Republic Title Company - Equity Community Builders Trumark Urban LinkedIn San Francisco how would you move that forward?” There Kilroy Realty Corporation Cannon Constructors North Farella Braun + Martel LLP Twitter Oracle Corporation isn’t a defeatist in the group. Lyft Comcast Fehr & Peers University of San Francisco Lendlease Page Microsoft Emerald Fund Gerson Bakar & Associates Valley Oak Partners, LLC What’s your favorite thing about San Jose? LinkedIn Corporation Panoramic Interests Golden State Warriors Wendel Rosen Black & Dean The hills. In Gilroy there’s a hiking trail Postmates Grosvenor Americas Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Microsoft Corporation Heller Manus Architects LLP called Harvey Bear at what used to be a Hanson Bridgett LLP Perkins Coie Salesforce The Herbst Foundation Westlake Urban, LLC Pacific Gas and Electric Company PGA Design hot springs. The springs are gone now, but Hines Interests HGA Architects & Engineers Woods Bagot Architects Pinger oh my God it’s gorgeous up there.

34 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT * deceased 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 35 Carmen Chu Accenture Handel Architects, LLP R.N. Field Construction Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel Fund San Pedro Square Market Grace Crunican Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group Hastings College of the Law Saint Francis Memorial Hospital Hohbach-Lewin NorthMarq Capital Santa Clara & San Benito Counties Building & Construction Trades Assessor-Recorder The Adco Group Hatch Samuel Merritt University Hopkins & Carley Notre Dame High School - San Jose General Manager Howard Properties OAC Council (SCBTC) City and County of San Francisco Alameda Health System Foundation Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Sand Hill Property Company BART Hugh Groman Catering Oakland Museum of California Santa Clara University Allen Matkins LLP Herrero Builders San Francisco Association of San Francisco Board, SPUR Hyatt Regency San Francisco Office of Charles F. Bloszies, Ltd. Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority Oakland Board, SPUR Realtors Alliance for Revitalized HMH Engineers ICA Fund Good Jobs Old Republic Title Company - Oakland Sares Regis Group of Northern California Communities Hudson Pacific Properties San Francisco County Integral Group Old Republic Title Company - San Jose The Schoennauer Company A.R. Sanchez-Corea & Associates Hunter Properties Transportation Authority Iteris Oliver & Company Shartsis Friese LLP Balfour Beatty Insight Realty Company San Francisco Public Works (SF Jack London Improvement District Opterra Law Silicon Valley Synergy DPW) Sir Francis Drake Hotel BAR Architects J. Abrams Law, P.C. Jobs and Housing Coalition Oryx Partners, LLC San Francisco Recreation and Parks SITELAB urban studio Bay Area Air Quality Management Jones Hall Jurika, Mills & Keifer Private Investment Page & Turnbull Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom District (BAAQMD) Department Advisors PayPal Kittelson & Associates LLP San Francisco VA Medical Center KBM-Hogue PIER 39 Bayview Development Group KPFF Consulting Engineers Skyline Construction Santa Clara County Association of Kennerly Architecture Pleasanton Gravel Company BCV Architects Lennar Multifamily Communities SoFA Market Realtors Kilroy Realty Corporation - 303 Second Pound Management BergDavis Public Affairs MADI Architecture + Planning Street SSL Law Firm Seifel Consulting Presidio Bank - Oakland stok Bionic Landscape McCarthy Building Companies Kimochi Rahm Investments SERA Architects Teamsters Joint Council No. 7 - Affiliated Build McKesson Corporation Larkin Street Youth Services Ramboll Sherwood Design Engineers Laborers-Employers Cooperation and with the International Brotherhood Burke, Williams and Sorensen, LLP Mercedes Benz Research & RINA Accountancy SHN Education Trust Southwest (LECET) of Teamsters Ritchie Commercial Carollo Engineers Development, North America TMC Financing Silicon Valley Bank Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects Carpenters Local Union 22 The Ron Kaufman Companies, LLC Meridian Management Group Lubin Olson & Niewiadomski LLP Toeniskoetter Family Foundation Simeon Properties Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey Cathedral Hill Meyers Nave LLP Lungomare Troon Pacific SmithGroupJJR Ruth and Going Cerner Mosaic Financial Partners MacKenzie Communications Union Bank srmERNST Development Partners Rutherford + Chekene City of Mountain View Moscone Emblidge & Otis Mark Cavagnero Associates The Unity Council Studio Current Saint Francis Foundation The Martin Group Uptown/Downtown CBD What’s the first thing you do when you City of San Jose Department of Newmark Cornish & Carey - Santa Salas O’Brien What’s the first thing you do when you Environmental Services Studio-MLA McCarthy Ranch UrbanBloc Clara San Francisco Building and Construction explore a new city? Studio T Square Urban Economics explore a new city? City of San Jose Office of Economic Nishkian Menninger McGrath Properties Trades Council Urban Real Estate Equities I look for good local food through a Development Studio VARA MCM Diversified San Francisco Electrical Construction See what cultural or unique things are NRG Energy Center Valerio Dewalt Train Associates STUDIOS Architecture Meyer Capital Partners LLC Industry combination of recommendations, Community Bank of the Bay OJK Architecture + Planning available. Mineta Transportation Institute The Vanmark Group Crescent Heights SWCA San Francisco Electrical Construction Instagram and blogs, and then build my Petrinovich Pugh & Co LLP M Moser Associates Industry Local 6 Veggielution Devcon Construction Swenson Builders visit around those stops. Pfau Long Architecture, Ltd. MNS Engineers San Francisco Firefighters Local 798 Walker/Warner Architects What civic project or initiative brings you Dome Construction Corporation Tech CU Polaris Pacific Modulus The San Francisco Housing Authority Wallace Roberts & Todd the most hope for the future? The TomKat Charitable Trust Donahue Fitzgerald LLP Power Engineering Co. Morgan Stanley San Francisco Parks Alliance Weinstein Local What civic project or initiative brings you T.Y. Lin International Group West Coast Properties CASA, the regional coalition working to East Bay Asian Local Development Presidio Bank - San Francisco Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco Zoological Society Corporation United Mechanical Incorporated William McDonough + Partners the most hope for the future? Public Financial Management Mott MacDonald San Jose Earthquakes address the housing shortage in the Bay The Fairmont San Jose Urban Planning Partners MSA Architecture + Design San Mateo County Transit District Young Community Developers HOPE-SF. See what I mean by visiting Pyatok Architects Zanker Recycling Area. Forell/Elsesser Engineers WRNS Studio LLP Murphy Burr Curry (samTrans) RAD Urban LLC the hope-sf.org website. San Mateo County Transportation Fort Mason Center XL Construction Natural Resources Defense Council Red and White Fleet Authority If you could wave a magic wand and Greenland USA Zoox Northern California Community Loan Republic Urban Properties LLC If you could wave a magic wand and Group I have one major infrastructure project have one major infrastructure project completed tomorrow, what would it be? completed tomorrow, what would it be? 1. A second transbay rail tube High-speed rail in California. 360 Total Concept, Inc. Cabrera Painting Derivi Castellanos Architects Individual Erik Hellén Donald Oliveira 2. High-speed rail to Sacramento Allana Buick & Bers California Apartment Association Tri- DM Development Partners, LLC Jeff Heller Lester Olmstead-Rose County Anderson-Brule Architects D.N. & E. Walter & Co. Members & Matt Hitchcock James Paxson You get one choice for your last meal in Architectural Resources Group Caltrain Dogtown Development If you could change one state or local Lynesta Hunter Regina Phelps the Bay Area. What is it? Armanino Cambridge Systematics D.R. Young Associates Donors level law, what would it be? Cameron C. Habel Construction Laurie A. Johnson, AICP Mark & Tia Pierce This is a hard one. There’s the dried fried Arquitectonica Eden Housing Catherine Barner 1. Eliminate or restructure Prop. 13 and CCS Architecture Charles Kahn Joyce Polhamus Artik Art & Architecture Ellis Partners LLC Justin Bedecarre chicken from San Tung, banana cream Aspiriant Center for Elders’ Independence Envelope Architecture & Design Joshua Karlin-Resnick David Prowler its impact on housing and the local tax Richard Bender Avison Young Chariot Environmental Vision Jason C. Kautz William Purcell pie from Tartine, the warm octopus salad Ron Blatman structure. Backstrom McCarley Berry & Co., LLC Chinatown Community Development Fair Food Network Christopher Killian Ramya Raghavan from Liho Liho Yacht Club…. But if I had to Center Matt Bornski 2. Free college for all — start with BAE Urban Economics Fergus Garber Young Architects Brent Kobashi Nina Rannells Circlepoint Jen Botch choose one restaurant in San Francisco, Baker Street Associates Fidelity National Title Thomas LaTour Deborah Robbins & Henry Navas community colleges. Ball + Winter LLC City of Fremont Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Corie Calfee I’d probably choose PPQ Dungeness City of Oakland Barbara Lawrence Eric Robinson Baran Studio Architecture First Community Housing Julienne M. Christensen & Gregory Ann & Jim Lazarus Jose Tony Rodriguez You get one choice for your last meal in Island for their roasted butter crab, garlic Barnes Mosher Whitehurst Lauter & City of San Jose Department of Housing Fisherman’s Wharf Community Benefit H. Smith Partners City of San Jose Department of Parks, District Scott Lefaver Joel Roos noodles, hot bowl of pho, fried imperial Elizabeth L. Colton the Bay Area. What is it? Barrett Block Partners, LP Recreation and Neighborhood Flint Builders Emily Lesk Toby & Sally Rosenblatt Services Jamie D’Alessandro Anything at Slanted Door. rolls, stir fried string beans and shaking Battalion One Fire Protection Ford GoBike Steve Levy David Sacarelos City of San Jose Department of Gia Daniller-Katz Bay.org Fougeron Architecture beef. Transportation Jennifer Lew Stephen Sanders Biggs Cardosa Associates G2 Insurance Services Bernard T. Deasy What one thing truly embodies the spirit City of San Jose Public Library James R. Lightbody Helen Sause Bix Restaurant Garden City Construction Tyra Fennell Civic Edge Consulting Tom Lockard Lynn & Paul Sedway of your neighborhood? What one thing truly embodies the spirit Blach Construction Co. Gehl Architects John Fisher Coalition for Better Housing David J. Madson Sayed Shafi Black & Veatch Genesis Real Estate Group Access to the water. of your neighborhood? Cody Anderson Wasney Architects Mike Fitzhugh Bogdan & Frasco Genius Loci Connie M. Martinez Glenn Shannon It’s the feeling of being able to walk up the Community Housing Partnership David & Vicki Fleishhacker Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Goldfarb & Lipman LLP Jamaica Allen Maxwell Beau Simon Which SPUR initiative excites you most? Commute.org Thomas L. Frankel street to a local restaurant, coffee shop BPM LLP GreenWaste Recovery Bob McLaughlin Eva Slusser The Core Companies Robert E. Friedman Bringing Oakland and San Jose into the Brereton Architects Hargreaves Associates Martin Menne Barbara T. Smith or bakery and then take a leisurely stroll Cubic Transportation Systems Martin Gellen Brian Spiers Development Harsch Investment Properties fold. Cupertino Electric Randy Meyers Kyle Smith to the neighborhood park or beach with Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP Hearst Corporation Hillary Gitelman & Susan McCue Daniller Consulting Clare M. Murphy Kelly Snider Broadway Management Company HKIT Architects Jennifer Gridley Birdie (our four-legged family member). Degenkolb Engineers Levon Nishkian Michael Spiegelman Buttrick Projects Architecture and Design HKS Architects Craig Heckman

36 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 37 Rebecca Prozan Tom Steinberg Andrew Dohrmann Ross Levy Philip Perlin Bodovitz • Jeanne Boes • Jean Dahlia Chazan • Mariah Chen • DeNardo • Brown Dennis • Flores • Martin Flores • Peter Chris Iglesias Emma Stewart Alan Dones Huichang Li Sayed Pirzada Bogiages • Tiffany Bohee • Michael Chen • Jay Cheng • Colin Dentel-Post • Raman Flores • Katherine Florio • Gary Celeste Drake Brian Liles Susan Poliwka Brianna Ceglia Bohonok • Scott Kathy Cheng • Jonathan Deol • Jennifer K. Devlin • A. Floyd • Julie Flynn • Kirsten Head of California Public Affairs Peter B. Sullivan Bohrer • Ruth Bond • Claire Cherry • Eunice Childs • Chris Annelise DeVore • Jason Flynn • Rachel Flynn • Jim CEO Richard C. Dreyer Charles Long Laurie Poston & Brian Ferrall James R. Sutton Bonham-Carter • Rick Bonilla • Chimenti • Albert Ching • Just Dewees • Michael Dewees • Fong • Chris Ford • Thomas Google Norberto Duenas Joel Luebkeman Eric Powell The Unity Council Margaret Swink & Robert Natalie Bonnewit • Patricia Chip • Aaron Choate • Bernie Gerry De Young • Omar Diab • Ford • Kirsten Fordyce- San Francisco Board, SPUR Kristy Dutch Andrea L. Mackenzie Joseph L. Powell Boomer • Andrea Schwartz Choden & Lois Scott • Joon Jeff Diamond • David Dick • Wheeler • Jim Forsberg • Mike Oakland Board, SPUR Saliba Dianne Easton John Madden Dominique Price Boone • Sirichon Boonprakob • Choi • Kaushal Chokshi • Fai Amy Dickie • Hayley Dickson • Forster • Thomas Fortier • Robert R. Tufts Erin Efner Masharika Prejean Maddison Rebecca Prozan Ashley Boots • Michael Borden Chong • Carolyn Choy • Genise Kate Didech • Michele Benjamin Fortin • Fletcher Foti Robert Wilkins Arthur Evans Gary E. Malazian Dan C. Quigley • Thaddeus Borek • Roberta Choy • Jon Christensen • DiFrancia • Drew Dimmery • • Rosanne Foust • Jennifer Fox Borgonovo • Didi & Dix Boring Michael Christensen • Terry Kathleen Diohep • David Dion • • K.C. Fox • Nathan Francis • Todd Williams Doug Farr Gregory Malin Robert Raburn • Steve Borkenhagen • Juan F. Christensen • Patton Kearstin Dischinger • Joe Taryn Fransen • June Fraps • José Ignacio Farrán Joan A. Malloy Ken Rackow Tom Willis Borrelli, AICP • Craig Bosman • Christofides • Tiffany Chu • DiStefano • Elaine Ditmore • Benjamin Frazier • Douglas Roger & Ruth Wu Alex Filatov Andrew Mann Anne Randolph Earl G. Bossard • John Samuel Chui • Edward Church • Jeffrey Dlouhy • Kevin Do • Frazier • Robert Frear • Amalia Elizabeth Yost Brian Flaherty Laurie Manuel James Reber Bosselman • James Bourgart • Natalie Chyba • Alger Shannon Dodge • Julie Doherty Freedman • Jake Freedman • Richard Fleischman Alan P. Mark Justas Reskevicius Erin Bourne • Martin Bourqui • Ciabattoni • Robert Cirese • • Mary Helen Doherty • Sarah E. Freeman • Yusef

William Fleishhacker John Marx Michael Delos Reyes Chanel Boutakidis • Adam Jay W. Claiborne • Marcus Margaret Mary Dolan • Thomas Freeman • Chris Freise • Paul Julie Fry Scott Mauvais Alan E. Rothenberg Bowen • Jordan Bowen • Clark • Marissa J. Clark • Colin Dolan • Mike Dominelli • Anya Fritz • Christine Fry • Richard Celiena Adcock Laramie Bowron • Nate Boxer • Clarke • Angelo Claudio • Domlesky • Conor E. Donegan Fuentes • John Henry Fullen • Peter Finley Fry Sam McGarey Barbara Sahm Katherine D. Aldrige Christine Boyd • Kelly Boylan • Kristen Clements • Bradley • Eric Dooley • Sophia Dosick • Frank L. Fuller, FAIA • Luke Melinda Gedryn Pete McKean Joanne Sakai Louai Al-Khanji Janet Braden • Geoff Bradley • Cleveland • Elizabeth Redman Shirley Douglas • Joan Fuller • Margurite Fuller • Frank Geefay Alberto Medina Debra Sanderson James Allison William Braganza • John Cleveland • Marcy Coburn • Douglas-Fry • Jennifer David Fung • Chad Fusco • Kali Sarah Goldspink Stephen Melikian Molly Schremmer Branagh • Charles Brandau • Nithin Coca • Andie Cochran • Dowland • Teri Dowling • Futnani • Maureen Futtner • Peter Almazol Adam Goldstein Amy Meyer Peter Scott Benjamin M. Brandin • Peter Martin Cochran • Geoffrey Richard Draper • Anne Drazen Eric Gabrielsen • Don Gagliardi Rebecca Amato Gretchen Grant Nancy Michaels John Semanik Brandon • John Brazil • Eryn Coffey • Jonathan Cohen • • Sarah Dreitlein • Samuel • Jeffrey Galbraith • Kalen Mary Ann Aronson Brennan • Nicole Michele Rachel Cohen • Nick Cohn • Dreyer • Kay Drinkhouse • Gallagher • Larry Gallegos • Brian Greco Lloyd Kirk Miller Alex Shapiro Darío Avram Brennan • Ricardo Bressanutti Jessica Cole • Ronald E. Cole, Sheryl Drinkwater • Derek Morgan Galli • Paavan Gami • Marian J. Gregoire Kris Miller-Fisher Anna Shimko Barry Barnes • Paul & Claudia Bressie • D.D.S. • Travis Cole • Heather Drish • John Dryden • Brooke Daniel Garcia • Evelyn Garcia • Jana Gunsul Jeanne Milligan Matthew Slepin Robert Baum Justin Brickell • Leslie R. Briggs Coleman • Valerie Coleman • DuBose • Sky Dufaux • Jennifer Marissa Garcia • Zachary Garcia Cynthia Hamilton Leslie L. Milloy Jerry Smith • Jesse Bright • Suzanne Kevin Colin • Susan Coliver • Duffield • Victoria Duggan & • Kevin Gardiner • Linda M. Timothy Bauman What’s the first thing you do when you Amber Hasselbring E.B. Min Steven Spaid Brinkley • Cheryl Brinkman • Randy Collins • Bruce Colman • Tom Bahning • Laura Dulski • Gardner • Nitin Garg • Ritu What civic project or initiative brings you Dena Belzer Amanda Hawkins Ron & Cynthia Moe-Lobeda Paul Staley Elizabeth Brisson • Philip Marco Colon • Steve Compton Andrew Dunbar & Zoee Garg • Sarah Garmisa • Bryn explore a new city? Simon Bertrang the most hope for the future? Eric Heiman Grace Moon Alice & Kevin Steiner Brodey • Zelda Bronstein • • Nathan Conable & Melissa Astrakhan • James Dunbar • Garrett • David Gast & Elena Barbara Bestor Eustacia Brossart • Lindsay Devereaux • Nadia Conceicao • Chris Duncan • Anna Duning • Schmid • Ryan Gates • Andrew Experience the downtown area; it’s the Joseph Herman Chris Morgan Jonathan Stern Development without displacement. David Black Brothers • Alexander Brown • Valerie Concello • Emily Kathy Duong • Karna DuQuite • Gaul • David Gazek • honorary New Yorker in me (my dad is James Hill Edward Morimoto Peter Straus John Bliss & Kim Thompson Amanda Brown • Jennifer Condon • James L. Conlon • Laina Zarek Durbin • Louise Christopher Gebhardt • Megan Rick Holden James Morrison Christopher Stuart from Brooklyn). I love the hustle and bustle. Aaron Bloom Brown • Robin Brown • Kimberly Conner • Mitchell Dyble • Amanda Eaken • Lee K. Gee • Robert J. Geering • If you could wave a magic wand and Kathleen Houlehan Kathryn Morrissey Paulett Taggart Robinson O. Brown • Timothy Conner • Micaela Connery • Eckert • Hannah Edelsberg • Julian Gelvezon • Jennie Scott Bovard Julie Hyson Dick Morten Leah Toeniskoetter Brown • Bradley Brownlow • Josef Conning • Robert Scott Edmondson • Daniel J. Gerard & Steven Steinhour • Ed have one major infrastructure project Anna Boyer What civic project or initiative brings you Julie Jackson Daniel E. Murphy Peter Tuozzolo Greta Brownlow • Jonathan Connolly • Michael S. Connor • Edwards • Ted Egan • Martha Gerber • Hartmut H. Gerdes • Andrew Branscomb Bruck • Tess Brustein • Neilson Pamela Conrad • Chris Conway Ehrenfeld • Myrna Ehrlich • Eric Martin Gerendasy • Marci completed tomorrow, what would it be? Michael & Megan Janis Karen Murray Steve Vandewater the most hope for the future? Anthony Bruzzone Buchanan • Tom Buckley • • Anne Cook • David Cooke • Eidlin • Jean Eisberg • Dan Gerston • Daniel Getelman • Edward Janowicz Deborah Nelson Michael Veale An expanded and more efficient BART David Burton Jesse Budlong • Karolina Bufka William Cooley • Richard Eisenberg • Elizabeth Ekdale • Lina Ghanem • Jeff Gherardini Bike sharing. I’ve become a huge fan of Melanie Jones Geoffrey Nelson Jennifer Vetter Dale M. Butler • Joe Bunker • Dana Burd • Coolman • Drew Cooper • Mia Onur Ekmekci • Theresa Elam • • Nicole Ghiselli • Jill Gibson • system. Lois Kelley Rachel A. Newell Isabel Wade Rafael Burde • Laurence Cooper • Joseph Cooter • Amy T. Eliot • Sydnor Elkins • Barak Gila • Art Gilberg • Jim Jump bikes, and I hope that soon they will Fenita Caldwell Ron Kilby Chrissy Mancini Nichols Richard Wallace Burnett • Carly Burns • Shirl Flavio Coppola • Mary Corley • Susan Ellenberg • Colin H. Gilbert • Keith & Sue Gilbert • be everywhere. Josh Callahan Pat S. Kilduff Michelle Novotny Ming & Amy Wang Buss, Ph.D. • Cindy Bustamante Louis Cornejo • Molly Cornfield Elliott • Tani Elliott • Catherine Lily Gilbert • Adam Gilgoff • If you could change one state or local Kirsten R. Chapman Robert C. Kirkwood* Margie O’Driscoll Darrin Ward • Grace Butler • Christine • Van Cornwell • Cole Correa • Ellis • Scott Ellsworth • Mika Gillian Gillett • Dan Gillette • Pete Choi Butterfield • Johanna Buurman Bryant Corwin • Eddie Corwin • Endo • Alexander Eng • William Gimpel • Jasmine level law, what would it be? If you could wave a magic wand and Gueorgi Kossinets Paul Okamoto Jaap Weel Ken Cleaveland • Genevieve Cadwalader • Erik Corwin • Justin Costa- Cheong-Tseng Eng • Tiffany Gipson • Jason Gladding • Richard Kunnath Elsa Ortiz David Whitney Three strikes. have one major infrastructure project Paige Coluccio Luisa Cafe • Fiona Cahill • Roberts • Elaine Costello • Eng • Louise Engel • Howard Dehan Glanz • Stuart Glaser • Bryon & Liz Kuth Wendy Osaki Monica Wilson Matt Curwood Gerald K. Cahill • Christine Elizabeth Costello • Laurens Epstein • Annemarie Erbel • Joy Glasier • Dan Glassoff • completed tomorrow, what would it be? Gustav Larsson Hardip S. Pannu Tanya Wollman Calabrese • Nico Calavita • I. Costeris • Melvin Cowan • Niels Erich • Chip Erickson • Chris Glenn • Paul Glenn • Marya D’Abate Owen Lawlor Tony Pantaleoni Arthur Wydler Maria Calderon • Lindsay Morgan Cowick • Jim Cox • Randi C. Ervin • Robert Christopher Glick • Ray You get one choice for your last meal in Reliable, operational, clean and safe Muni. Richard E. DeLeon Vincent Leger James Patrick Jodie Yagi Calderone • Joan Caldwell • Kara Cox • Steven Cox • Escobar • Bobak Esfandiari • Glickman • Justin Glover • Lisa the Bay Area. What is it? Robert Demmons Kenneth Caldwell • Rich Jeremy Crandell • Alice Sabrina Eshaghi • Victor Gluckstein • Carol Goldberg • Drew Lehman Stephen S. Pearce Jessica Zenk If you could change one state or local Katrina Dirksen Caldwell • Ryan Call • Joshua Cravens • Carole Critchlow • Espinoza • Marco Esposito • David Goldman • Ron Golem • Just a six-pack of IPA from a local brewery Fred Levinson Gabrielle Perez Dafna Zilafro Dana Ditmore Callahn • Christopher Calott • Brendan Crockett • Troy Crosby Opal Essence • Sarah Estephan Andrea Gomez • Monica level law, what would it be? Barbara Camacho • Rendell • Jay Cross • Colin Crotta • • Mark Evanoff • Nick Evans • Gomez • Sandie Gong • Irving and a walk on the trail from Lincoln Park One law to meaningfully address the Camacho • Lorin Camargo • Laura Crounse • Emilio B. Cruz Sophie Ewald • Lesley Ewing • Gonzales • Rick Gooch • Golf Course to Lands End. Marilyn & Bill Campbell • • Bryan Culbertson • Tim Rebecca Ewing • Colin Eykamp Christopher Goode • Pam ability of homeless individuals to obtain Diane Abbott • M.C. Abbott • • Chris Amos • Pamela Amparo Lawrence Badiner • Jonathan Teri Behm • Corbett Belcher • Catherine Campbell-Orrock • Culvahouse • Jack Cunha • • Jackson & Peggy Fahnestock Goode • Sarah Goss • Larry David Abella • David • Penelope Amuyunzu • Bair • Jason Baker • Lee Baker Dan Bell • Frances Bell • Paul Dominic Campi • Rachel Denise Cunningham • Kinh • Michael Fajans • Daniel Fama Gould • Hugh Graham • Alex the services they desperately need. Abercrombie • Melody Ablola • Guneet Anand • Tim Anderson • Lisa Baker • Rusti L. Baker • Bellar • Joey Benassini • Campos de Ivanov • David Curotto • Sophie Currin • • Chris Fano • Luke Faraone • Grande • Robert Grandy • What one thing truly embodies the spirit Carlos Abreu • Luby Aczel • • Ulrika Andersson • Gregory Stacey Baker • Max Bakker • Ricardo Benavidez • Brittany Caneer • John Caner • Matthew Melanie Curry • Charmaine Bob Farman • Casey Farmer • Noah Grant • Loni Gray • Neil of your neighborhood? What one thing truly embodies the spirit Gillian Adams • Pamela Owen Andreas • Donald Andreini • Caleb Balbera • Maura Baldwin Bendix • Paul Bendix • Martha Cantu • Melody Cao • Lillian Curtis • Darcelle Curtis • Paul Farrell • Lesley Fascia • Gray • Cristina Greavu • Adams • Starr Adams • Anita Alicia Andrews • Karen • Shiloh Ballard • Tim Ballas • Benioff • Robert Bennett • Cape • Jorge Carbonell • Julie Shannon Daggett • Kushal Amanda Fasenmyer • Adele Danette Green • Stewart Green The Fruitvale Transit Village. of your neighborhood? Addison • John Addison • Andrews • Chris Andrichak • Joe Bamberg • Nikhilesh Matthew Bens • Brad Benson • Cardillo • Michael Carlson • Nik Dagli • Danielle Dai • Ari Fasick • Andrew Faulkner • • Melanie Greenfield • Eugene Craig Adelman • Sepi Aghdaee Susan A. Anthony • Christina Banerjee • Hoang L. Banh • Jim Bergdoll • Kelly Berger • Carlson • Tonya Carmien • Ana Daman • Clayton Damron • Brent Faville • Jaime Fearer • & Barbara Gregor • Will Harvey Milk started his career with a • Christopher Agosta • Faruq Antiporda • Jo Appleby • Ozzy Thu Banh • Jean Banker • Peggy Berglund • Carlos Carpenter • Atticus Carr • John Andrew Danish • Drew Dara- Jonathan Fearn • Claire Feeney Gregory • Wylie Greig • Emily camera shop a block away from my Ahmad • Priyoti Ahmed • Arce • Juan Francisco Arellano Michael Bankert • Philip Banta Berlanga • Michael J. Berne • J. Carrillo • Kate Carroll • Matt Abrams • Fay Darmawi • • Erin Feeney • Scott Feeney • Griego • Michael Griepentrog • Alexander Aickin • Laura Ajello • Georgina Arias • Diana Ariza • Dasha Barannik • John Betsy Beros • Rob Best • Staci Carson • Camila Xavier Harvey Darnell • Pamela David Joseph Feldman • Robert Janice Griffin • Ian C. Griffiths • home. The space is now occupied by the • Lindsey Alami • Jessica Alba • Chris Arkley • Lori Barbey • John & Joan Barkan • Betsch • Cole Bettles • Megan Carvalho • Patrick Cashman • • Amy Davidson • Gregory Feldman • Andrew Ferguson • Daniel Grinnell • Rebecca Human Rights Committee store, which is • Allison Albericci • Craig Armstrong-Mathieu • Leslie Julie Tilley Barlow • Esteban Bettles • Joshua Bevan • Lisa Carlos Castellanos • Matt Davies • Eric Davis • Regina Jeff Ferland • Christina Griswold • Kyle Grochmal • Albers • Peter, Libby & Tony Arnold • Phil Arnold & Monique Barnaby • Craig Barnes • Beyer • Imron Bhatti • Sheela Castillon • James Castle • Davis • Theodore Davis • Ferracane • Nicole Ferrara • George Grohwin • Kara Gross • a national organization dedicated to equal Albert • Gabriel Alcantar • Zmuda • Rebecca Arons • Reuben Barnes-Levering • Bhongir • Avery Bibbs • Anna Regan Catanzaro • Jeanine Willard W. Davis • Peter Mike Ferrier • David Fields • Robin Grossinger • Chris Dave Alden • Andrew Aldrich • Jacob Aronson • Jeanette John Barrett, Jr. • Sara Barrett Bielgaski • Justin Bigelow • Cavalli • Toussaint Celestin • Davison • Ellie Day • Linda Day Adrian Filice • Colin Findlay • Gruwell • Marc Guberman • rights for the LGBT community. David Alexander • Reaa Ali • Arpagaus • David Arthur • Ian • Peter Bartelme • Karen Elias Bildner • John H. Birely • Patricia Centeno • Andrew • Parker Day • Bart Deamer • Lisa Findley • Adrian Fine • Joanna Gubman • Kerry Bryan Allen • Daisy Allen • Ashcraft-Williams • John Bartholomew • Rick Raquel P. Bito • Chelsea Bixel • Chafer • James Chalmers • Marianne Quarre Dean • Taylor Andrea Fineman • Katherine Gudjohnsen • David Guiang • Which SPUR initiative excites you most? David Allen • Karen Allen • Ashworth • Yakuh Askew • Bartholomew • Noah Bartlett • Alana Black • Dorotea Bladen • Deni Chambers • Leah Dearinger • Bree DeArmond • Fines • Ellie Fiore • Jeff Fippin Steven Guichard • Anna Guiles Peter Allen • Walter Allen • Jerome Atendido • Mallory David Bartley • Cheryl Barton • Ryan Blahnik • Matthew Blain • Chambers • Jennifer Chan • Jeff Deiss • Fred DeJarlais • • Catherine Firpo • Diane K. • Solange Y. Guillaume • Joe The Civic Tech Council. I thoroughly Colin Alley • Christopher Mark Atkinson • Oliver Atwood • Ben Sara Barz • Tim Bates • William Bernadette Blanco • Joe Joshua Chan • Tammy Chan • Monica Deka • Joe Delaney • Fischer • Lisa Fisher • Claire Gulden • Jie Guo • Thomas Allocco • Jason Ally • Akthem Au • Carline Au • AnnMarie Baumgardner • Diana Bautista Blanco • Tim Bland • Lucian Joseph Chance • Andrew John Delaplane • Altaire Fitzgerald • Susan Fizzell • Guo • Kieran Gupta • Parag enjoy meeting colleagues from different Al-Manaseer • Beth Altshuler • Aviles • Lilian Ayala • Marilou • Gi’angelo Bautista • Aaron Robert Blazej • Howard Blecher Chandler • Andrew Chapello • DeLeon • Katie DeLeuw • Doug Flaming • Anthony Gupta • Boaz Gurdin • Isac & companies and getting a firsthand look Daniel Alvarado • Robert Rembulat Ayupan • David Bawol • Kevin Beauchamp • • Jonah Bleckner • William J. Bill Chapin • Helen Chapman • Robert J. DeLiso • Jenny Flanagan • Kay Flavell • Mike Minette Gutfreund • David Alvarado • Alfonso E. Alvarez • Babb • Deborah Babb • Cameron Beck • Max Beckman- Blessing • William Bloomer • Leslie Chard • Dylan Charles • Delumo • Justin Dembski • Fleisher • Jonathan Fleming • Gutzler • Ethan Guy • Jinhee at policy issues at the intersection of Susan Alves • Fatema Alzeera • Melinda Bacharach • Molly Harned • Mania C. Bedikian • Terry Blount • Robert Bluhm • Kathleen Charlesworth • Sean Alexander V. Demisch • Sarah Fleming • Brian Fletcher Ha • Joanne Ha • James Haas • Sara Amaral • Liv & Larry Ames Bacon • William P. Bacon • Sal Bednarz • Kelly Beggs • Gregory Bock • Joseph E. Charpentier • Kevin Chavous • Andrew Dempsey • Eric • Susan Floore • Janelle C. Joe Hackett • Meghan Hade • government and tech.

38 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT * deceased 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 39 Doug Hagan • Emilie Hagen • Bill Hynes • Mary Idso • Joseph Kloefkorn • Jay Kloo • Valarie Alana Lopez • Paulina Lopez • Gabriel Metcalf • Nick Meyer • Ouyang • Lubov Ovtchinikova • • John Ristow • Ana Rivera • Sherman-Presser • Sandy Susan Leal Ben Hahn • Shannon Hake • Iloreta • Claude Imbault • Klopping • Chris Kluthe • Erik Luke Loreti • Joseph Lovewell • Robert M. Meyers • Ron Miguel Joe Owens • Mitch Owens • Brooke Ray Rivera • Mike Sherwin • Zachary Sherwood • Garrett Herbert Dale I. Hall • Joshua Halvorson Heather Imboden • Anthony Kneer • Joey Knelman • Scott Richard S. Lowry • Nikki Lowy • Adam Millard-Ball • Brandon Trevor Owens • Malahat Rivera • Jose Rivero • Betsy Donna Shibata • Daniel Shifrin Principal • Clifford W. Ham • Perrine Imhof III & Ellen McLean • Tyler Knies • Ellen Knobeloch • • Thomas Loynd • Nathan Miller • Courtney Miller • Owrang • Sara Pacelko • Rives • Andrew Rivlin • Gerald • Deanna Shipman • Ray Managing Partner-Silicon Valley Urban Water Works Hamel • Chia Hamilton • Ingel • Alex Ingersoll • David Walter Knoepfel • Jeff Knowles Lozier • Lisa Lu • Emily Lubahn Deborah Miller • Diana Miller • Geetha Pai • Michael Painter • Robbins • Page Robbins • Shirani • Dustin Shitanishi • Deloitte LLP Bonnie & Earl Hamlin • Anna Ingram • Victoria Irvine-Brown • Jody Brunk Knowlton • Phillip • Matthew Lubniewski • Susan Mark Miller • Mary Anne Miller • Esperanza Pallana • Jose Palma Alexis Robert • Donald Catherine Shive • Daniel San Francisco Board, SPUR Han • Alex Hancock • Anthony • Lucile Irwin • Dean Isaacs • Kobernick • Charles Koch • Lucas & Daniel Eesley • Mark Paige Miller • Ruth Miller • Bob • Kelsey Palmer • Nicholas Robertson • Jack Robertson • Shockley • Jay Sholl • Alex San Jose Board and Hand • Nathan Hanna • Tracy David Ishida • Sree Iyer • Nori Martha Koch • Beaudry Kock • Luckhardt • Alex Ludlum • Mills • Dale Minami • Sarah Palter • Dennis Paoletti • Paul Robertson • Deborah Shoor • Laurie Shoor • Hanna • Whitney Hannah • Jabba • Daniel Jackoway • Kimberly Koempel • Kurt Amanda Lui • Grace Lui • Minick • Ella Mitchell • Lauline James Pappas • Anne Paprocki Robertson-Christman • Peter Elizabeth Shreeve • Amanda Executive Board, SPUR Gerad B. Hanono • Olof Hansen Luther Jackson • Lynn Jackson Kohlstedt • Michael Kohn • Kristen Lundgren • Greg Mitchell • Aitan Mizrahi • Troy • Rupa Parikh • Ed Park • Ji-Ho Robinett • Brandi Robinson • Siegel • Claudia Siegel • & John Calaway • Nathaniel • Robert Jackson • Ryan Jeremy Koletar • Carly Kontra • Lunkes • Elinore E. Lurie, Ph.D. Mock • Jonathan Moftakhar • Park • Ryan Park • Christian Danielle Robinson • Reigh Zachary Siegel • Zoe Siegel • Hanson • Woody Hanson • Jackson • Stephen Jackson • Sarah Koos • Noa Kornbluh • & Lawrence B. Lurie, M.D. • Dan Menaka Mohan • Gretchen Parker • Gretchen Parker-Taylor Robitaille • Vincent Rocha • William Siembieda • Natalia Christie Harbinski • Tara Evan Jacob • Ethan Jacobs • Hans Korve • Komendi Kosasih Luscher • Andre Luthard • Mokry • Laura Monczynski • • Daniel Parolek • Raymond Steven Rochon • Andres Perez Sifuentes • Ramsey Silberberg Hardesty • Lucy M. Harendza • Scott Jacobs • Shirley Jacobs • • Eliza Koshland • Andrew Bridgett Luther • Julie Luu • Orlando Monegas • Dragana Pascual • Amit Price Patel • Rodriguez • Cesar Antonio • Paul Silberstein • Blake Greg Harper • Tom Harrington Thomas Jacobson • Mais Jafari Kosinski • Chris Kottke • Chad Cynthia Luzod • Peter Lydon • Monson • Amanda Montez • Rakesh Patel • Tito Patri, Rodriguez • Barry Roeder • Silkwood • Stephanie Silkwood • Amana Harris • David • Lori Jain • Sudhanshu Jain • Kovaleski • Michael Kremer • Everett Lynn • Dennis Lytton • Charles Montgomery • Doug FASLA • Jason Patton • Peter Susan Roegiers • Will Rogan • • Paul Silvern • Bryan Harrison • Jordan Harrison • Dorsa Jalalian • Ryan James • Eli Krispi • David Kroot • Paul Cindy Ma • Grace Ma • Leo Ma Moody • Dorsey Moore • Travis Pawlowski • John C. Paxton • Alice Rogers • Sarah Rogers • Silverthorn • Larry Simi & Janet Tom Harry • Kevin Hart • Mac Moe Jamil • Jay W. Janda • Krupka • Sarah Kuehl • Emily • Xinglu Ma • Lauren M. Maass Moore • Brenna E. Moorhead • Salil Payappilly • Liz Payne • Apollo Rojas • Leo Rogers • Johnny Simmons • Hart • Kate Hartley • Peter Jourdan Janssen • Dave Javid • Kuehler • Skot Kuiper • • Peter Maass • Christian D. Megan Moran & Hector Laurel Peacock • Gabrielle Romanovsky • Jessica Romm • Eddy Simonian • Kent Sims • Hartman • Michael Hartmeyer • Cathy Jeffries • Anna Marie Kimberly Kung • Emily Kunka • Macke • Bruce Mackenzie • Gonzales • Ned Moran • Scott Pearce • Holly Pearson • Brandon Rood • Laura Rooklin Eric Simundza • David Singer • Lynn Harwell • Sam Hashemi • Jene • Joshua Jenkins • Megan Doug & Liza Kunz • Hiroko Rob Mackenzie • Alexandra Moran • Prasad More • Stuart Jordan Pearson • Lindsay • Derrick Roorda • Nicholas Leonard Singer • Bharat Singh Ray Hashimoto • Richard M. Jennings • Mark Jensen • Kurihara • Lev Kushner • John MacKie • Matt Macko • Julia Morgan • Leroy M. Morishita • Pearson • Mark Pearson • John Roosevelt • Ian Rose • Jeanne • Tara Singh • James Sinton • Hashimoto • Lisa Haut • Robin James Jeong • Bruce Jett • Kutay • Alina Kwak • Adam MacRory • Mark Macy • Joe Minming Wu Morri • Chris Peattie • Christopher Pederson Rosenmeier • Nick Ross • Marlene L. Sironi • Carolyn Havens • Joanne Hayes-White Clayton Jew • Linda Jewell • Kyle • Tiffany Lacey • Joe Maffei • Richard Magary • Morrill • Mia & Robert Morrill • • Michelle Pena • Nadja Pentic Steven Ross • Tillie Ross • Sisto • John Skibbe • Nikolai • Sophie Hayward • Helen Loretta Jimenez • Sheela Jivan Lachoff • Jordan Lachoff • Tsatsral Magnaibayar • Ryan Tina Morrill • Edward Morris • • Steve Pepple • Raul Peralez • Rebecca Rothman • William Sklaroff • Emerson M. Skufca • Head • Mary Hearn • Aaron • Ellen Joslin Johnck • Bradley Jonathan Lack • Joseph LaClair Magno • Finn Magoon • Linda Morris • Michele T. Morris Joanna Perez-Green • Mia Rowan • Mike Rowland • Brian George Slack • Sandra Slater • Hebert • Barbara L. Heckman • R. Johnson • Carol Johnson • • Steve LaDelfa • Lila LaHood • Christine Maher • Brian Main • • Richard Morrison • Sam Perkins • Luke A. Perkocha • Rowley • Chris Royalty • Ken Slattery • Dan Slaughter • Gary Hedden • Richard & Linda Chelsea Johnson • Douglas Anne Laird-Blanton • Karina John Malamut • Cynthia Morrissey • Ai Lin Morten • Brian Perlman • Sara Peschel • Michelle Ruan • Geoff Tom Slezak • Ann Slobod • Hedges • Andrew Heidel • Max Johnson • Marta S. Johnson • Lairet • Nicole Lamarche • Malhinha • Chandra Mallik • Steve Morton • Tom Moseley • Dylan Peters • Linda Peters • Rubendall • Jay D. Rubenstein Adam Smith • Corey Smith • Heinritz • Chris Heisterkamp • Robert Johnson • Darrell E. Enrique Landa • Marisa Patrick Malloy • Isabelle Malouf Toye Moses • Janine Moss • Tabatha Petersen • Cliff • Jessie Rubin • Roger Rudick • Gordon Smith • H. William What’s the first thing you do when you Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez • Greg Jones III • Chris Jones • Greta Landicho • Neil Lang • Maria • Asheem Mamoowala • Ruby Dan Mountsier • Barbara L. Peterson • Brianne Pham • Ha Margie Rueger • Melissa Ruhl • Smith III • Jeny Smith • Maggie What’s the first thing you do when you explore a new city? Henderson, AIA • Jamie R. Jones • Jenn Jones • Karla Candida Langbauer • Jason Manalo • Rafael Mandelman • Moy • Kirsten S. Moy • Anna Pham • Johan Philippine • April Jonathon Rusch • Larry Russell Smith • Nancy Smith • Pieter H. explore a new city? Henderson • Laura Henderson Jones • Pamela Jones • Tom Langkammerer • Peter Langtry Roberto Manduchi • Brian Muessig • Alexander Mulder • Philips • Rick Phillips • Dane • Khanh Russo • Peter Russo • Smith • R.L. Smith • Robert I take transit from the airport. It gives you • Venessa Henlon • Rod Henmi Jones • Trevor Jones • Tyler • Ashley Langworthy • Sara Manford • Anthony Mangonon Jarrett Mullen • Prashanth Pieri • Johannes G. Pieters • Susan Ryan • Jessi Rymill • Terrell Smith • Susie Smith • Survey the live music venues and see what • Katherine Hennes • Kathleen Jones • Kate Jorgensen • Lanning • Bruce Lanyon • Todd • Marie Maniscalco • Lyndon Mundkur • Robert Munson • Darin Piippo • Nick Pilch • Dave Robert Sabbatini • Eli Saddler • William Smith • Michael a chance to check out the transportation Hennessey • Michael Matthew Jorgensen • Robert Lappin • Alejandro Lara • Manuel • Jessica Manzi • Adam Keiko Murayama • Brian Pine • Natasha Pinto • Robert Aaron Sage • Elaine Sahlins • Smithwick • Sylvia Smullin • acts will be performing while I’m there. system and allows you to walk a bit and Hennessey • David Henry • Joseph • Jeff Joslin • Mary Philippe Larincq • Pierre Marcus & Theresa Chinte • Murphy, Ph.D. • Michael Murphy R. Piper • Andrea Pippin • Mary Brent Saldana • William Sale • Sally K. Smyth • David Snippen Richard Henry • Todd Henry • Jung • Ben Juteau • Joshua Larochelle • Ryan Larrabure • Lawrence Marcus • David Marin • Richard Murray • Tim Murray Pittman • Sal Pizarro • Christina Salehi • Rebecca • Jennifer Sobol • Amanda What civic project or initiative brings you see some of the city. Gregory Hensley • Robert Kagan • Michael Kahan • Andy Hans Larsen • David J. Larson • & Amanda Halpin • Dan Marks • Robert Muscat • Peter A. Mye Christopher Pizzi • Karen Saltzman • John F. Sampson • Sobrepena • Joel Soden • Peter Herman • Peter Herrera • Kahn • Marie Kahn • Vivian Ophelia Lau • Samuel Lauter • • Kirk Marlow • Alex Marqusee • Matthew Myers • Maxwell Plemons • Mike Plotz • Liz Chelsea Samuel • Siarhei Sokoloff • Brian Soland • Jessie the most hope for the future? Christy Herron • Anne L. Kahn • Earl K. Kaing • Kevin Peter Lauterborn • Keith • Merideth Marschak • Amy Myers • Nolan Myers • Anthony Pocock • Lucia Pohlman • John Samuseu • Alejandro Sanchez • O’Malley Solis • Jerry Solomon If you could wave a magic wand and Hersch • Robert H. Hersey • Kaiser • Bhanu Kala • Dan Layton • Donovan Lazaro • Marshall • Roberta Marshall • Nachor • Nathan Nagai • Julia A. Polyzoides • Rob Poole • David Sanchez • Fernando • Angie Sommer • Debbie Diridon Station will have a dramatic have one major infrastructure project Patrick Heryford • Barbara Kalmick • Arya Kamangar • Noah Lazarus • Kim Ngoc Le • Lora Martens • Garrett Martin • Nagle • Nicolas Nagle • Pam Michael Poreda • Lisa Porras • Sanchez • Will Sandman • Jory Sommer • Sean Sorrell • Bill impact on downtown San Jose. It has the Herzig • Don Hesse • Gavin John Kamp • Holly Kan • Dawn Tom Leader • Amanda Louise Ian Martin • Andrew Martinez & Nagle • Moses Nakamura • Sharon Portnoy • Ross Sandusky • Marveliz Santos • Souders • Joe South • Bryant completed tomorrow, what would it be? Hession • Rachel Hiatt • Kevin Kang • Sehgyung Kang • Carrie Leahy • Sue Lebeck • Roland Julie Witherspoon • Troy Diana Nankin • Poonam Narkar Portugeis • Lauren A. Post • Rahmin Sarabi • Kate Sargent • Sparkman • Heather Sparks • potential to shift the center of gravity in Hickey • Jessica Hickok • Kristy Kao • Kenneth Kao • Edward Lebrun • Rich Lechner • Lauren Martinez • Tabor Martinsen • • Andrew B. Nash • Kim Nash • Sam Postel • David Postlewaite Rachelle Sarmiento • Chris Joe Speaks • Raphael Sperry • Yikes, that’s a tough question. I love Higares • Charles Higgins • Kaplan • Eli Kaplan • Svilen Ledbetter • Annie Ledbury • Susi Marzuola • David Shalini Nataraj • Nooshi Nayak • Niels Povlsen • Julia Powers • Sater • Julie Satterwhite • Anne Spevack • Steven Silicon Valley southward to San Jose and infrastructure and there’s so much we Cayce Hill • Monty Hill • Karaivanov • Susan Karasoff • Kelli Ledeen • Paul Ledesma • Masenten • Yusef Masjedi • • Janice & Ron Naymark • Ron Poznansky • Dera-Jill Patricia Sausedo • Andrew Spickard • Luke Spray • Rene will significantly improve quality of life for Stephanie E. Hill • Gretchen Kristan Karinen • Sarah Dennis Lee • Gina Lee • Jason Mark Masongsong • Meegan Aboubacar Ndiaye • Nick Neely Pozner • Jason Prado • Sonali Sauter • Kim Scala • Kathy Spring • Trevor Squier • Jan need. Despite being a water gal, I would Hilyard • Robert Hindman • Karlinsky • Jared Karol • Lee • Jennifer Lee • Joyce Lee Massagli • Glenna Matthews • • Annette Nellen • Andrea Praharaj • Ed Pratt • Bruce Schaefer • Skyler Schain • Gary Sramek • Sujata Srivastava • people throughout the Bay Area. Sheryl Hingorani • James Jordan Karp • Fred Karren • • William Lee • Chad Leege • Colette Mauboussin • Laura Nelson • Andrew J. Nelson • Prescott • Jared Press • Laurel Scharlach, ASLA • Juliette XanDr Stack • Ross Stackhouse say a second transbay tube for BART. Hinkamp • Michael Hinkley- Thor Kaslofsky • Jennifer Kass Eric Lefteroff • Alexandra Maurer • Art May • Pete May • Beth Nelson • Bonnie & James Prevetti • Sarah Price • Keith Schatan • Jeremiah Schaub • • Richard Stacy • Oran Reck • Melissa Hippard • Liz • Alice Kassinger • Scott Legrady • John Lehnert • Adam Stuart Mayberry • Brie Nelson • Kari Nelson • Theresa Primdahl • Aaron Priven • Betsey Scheiner • David Stainbrook • Peter Stair • If you could wave a magic wand and You get one choice for your last meal in Hirschhorn • Shayna Hirshfield- Kauffman • Alice S. Kawaguchi Richard Leider • Ian Leighton • Mazurek • Keegan McAllister • M. Nelson • Scott Nesmith • Pamela Pucci • Ismael Pugeda Schenker • Heath Schenker • Nathan Stalnaker • Gary have one major infrastructure project Gold • Kazuko Hishida • Ai • Yuhan Ke • Duncan Keefe • Melissa Lelaind • Max Lelu • Katie McCabe • Michael McCall Lois Neuberger • David • Ahmad Shah Qayoumi • Fredrick Schermer • Linda Stanford • Brian Stanke • John the Bay Area. What is it? Hiyama • Anne Ho • Tony Ho • James Keenan • Michael Kehl • Gloria Lenhart • Kevin Lenhart • Margaret McCarthy • Tricia Neuman • Richard Newbold • Kevin Quach • Bruce Quan • Schild-Jones • Gary Schilling • Stark • Virginia Stearns • Karen completed tomorrow, what would it be? Wendy Ho • Linda Ajello Emily Kehmeier • Rachael R. • Cat Lenis • Paul Leonard • McCarthy • Ryan McCarty • Ty Newell • Liz Newman • Meghen D. Quinn • Michael Tom Schindler • Steven Steen • James Stefanski • I’m going cheat here. First course: Hoagland • Harry Hobbs • Jeff Keish • Matthew Kelemen • Vince Lepera • Doonam LeSon Benjamin McCloskey • David Laura Ng • Justin Nguyen • Quinnell • Michael Rabanal • Schlansker • John Schlenke • Robert Stegall • Adrianne BART to downtown San Jose. I have a crispy smelt from Kokkari. Main course: Hobson • Katie Hoch • Simon Carly Keller • Dan Keller • • Philip F. Lesser • Maxim Levet McCollough • Mark McCollough Long Nguyen • Thanh Nguyen Daniel Rabin • Jackson Clayton Schloss • Brian Steichen • Elliot Stein • J. hate-hate relationship with I-880. Hochberg • Joan Hockaday • Catherine Kelliher • Martin • Adina Levin • Andy Levine • • Charlie McCollum • Susan • Emily Nichols • Krissa Nichols Rabinowitsh • Dan Schmidt • Chris Schmidt • Echa David Stein • Antje Steinmuller roast chicken from Zuni and Huarache Henry Hodes • Chelsea Hodge Chad Kellogg • Daniel Kelly • Aubra Levine • Matthew Levine McComb • Nini Charles McCone • Matthew Nichols • Ellen Rademacher • Mounir Rafeeq • Schneider • Lauren Schneider • • Greg Stepanicich • Grace de Huitlacoche from Nopalito. And for • Cassandra Hoeprich • Erica Kathleen Kelly • Kieran Kelly • • Nancy Levinson • Drew Levitt • Tom McCoy • Kelli McCune • Nicholson • Doug Nickels • Steven Rajninger • Silva Raker Gabriel Schnitzler • Erik Stephens • Carol Stephenson • If you could change one state or local Hoffman • Susan Hoffman • Matt Kelly • Tim Kelly • Kieran • David Levy • Robert Levy • Meredith McDermott • Brent Christian Nielsen • Sally Nielsen • Laura Rambin • Samuel Schoennauer • Kenneth Miles Stepto • Janice Stern • level law, what would it be? dessert: Fran Gage’s flourless chocolate Ariane Hogan • Mark Hogan • Kelly-Sneed • Alex Kennedy • Eugene & Ellen Lew • Devin McDonald • John McDonald • • Victor Niemeyer • Pam Rampy • Abigail Ramsden • Schreiber • Molly Schremmer • David Sternberg • Heather & Jim Hoge • Maryanne Hoirup- Paul E. Kennedy • Dan Kenney Lewis • Zach Lewis • Peter Eric Todd McDonnell • Sean C. Nieting • Sabina Nieto • Jenny Blair Randall • Brian Randall • Dan Schulman • Jonathan Paul Sterner • Peg Stevenson • I’d reduce the ease of putting initiatives cake made by my wife. Bacolod • Gregory Holisko • • Siobhan Kenney • Csilla Leyden • Iokian Li • Jia Li • McFeely • Daniel McGarry • Niklaus • Riki Nishimura • Vic Randall • Alex Randolph • Schuppert • Elliot Schwartz • Robert Stevenson • Brett Joshua Holle • Guy Hollins • Kenny • Rose Kerbein • Junyi Li • Lawrence Li • Shaina Daniel McGill • Patricia George Nixon • Steve Noack • Theodore Randolph • Bill Reuben Schwartz • Kenneth Stewart • Marc Steyer • J. Lee on the ballot. We need to elect politicians What one thing truly embodies the spirit Rachel Hollowgrass • Kelly Elizabeth Kerman-Morris • Li • Shichen Li • Mimi Liao • McGowan • Teron McGrew • John T. Noguchi • Christopher Rankin • Mark Ranneberger • Schwarz • Amanda E. Schwerin Stickles • Bruce Stoffmacher • who can legislate and govern. I’m most Hollywood • Anni Holma • Ted Vijaylaxsmi Kesavan • Michael Keith Lichten • Itria Licitra • Sophie McGuinness • Brynn Noll • Joseph T. Noonan • Anita Rao • Debbie Raphael • • Kathy Scott • Leah Scott • Lawrence E. Stone • Mark of your neighborhood? Holman • Peter Holst • Brian & Martha Kessler • Yennga Catherine Liddell • William McKiernan • Patrick McKiernan Cailin Notch • Ric Notini • Jan Philippe Rapin • Walter S. Rask Dana Seabury • Zach Seal • Stoner • Alex Storer • David comfortable when we elect smart people Holt, AICP • John L. Holt • Khuong • Christopher Kidd • Lieberman • Eva Maria • Dan McKinley • Elizabeth Novak • Andrew Francis Nowak • Emma Rastatter • Lisa Ratner John Sealander • Ryan Strain • Marilyn Straka • Ken The Presidio. It’s beautiful parkland Heather Hood • Natasha Robert Kidd • Miro Kielbus • Liebermann • Yury Lifshits • McLachlan • Erin McMillan • • David Noyola • Allen Nudel • • Susannah Raub • Stephanie L. Sebastian • Lynn Sedway • Stram • Gary Strang • Joe to make fully informed decisions. and it’s filled with great organizations, Hooper • Marcus A. Hopper • Andrew Kilduff • Kathleen Lincoln Lighthill • Andrew Rachel McQueen • Laurie Diane Jeff Nugent • Kristina Nugent • Ray • Marisa Raya • Daniel Susie See • Warren Quin Seeto Streeper • Bob Stromberg • Naomi Horowitz • Inge Horton Kilgariff • Kevin Killen • Anna Likuski • Jared Lilly • Florecita McWhorter • Melissa Meagher • Anthony Nuti • Bruce Nye • Raymond • Prescott Reavis • • Beyza Seflek • Cristina Segni Casey Strong • Kim Stryker & What one thing truly embodies the spirit restaurants and my YMCA. • Lys House • Daniel Howard • Killgore • Ellen Kim • Seon Joo Lim • Tom Limon & Cristy David Mealy • Linda Meckel • Jeff Oberdorfer • Kara Oberg • Christine Reed • Rob Rees • • Amy Seib • M. Thea Selby • Mark Anderson • Elizabeth Kate Howard • Richard Howard Kim • Suzy Kim • Erika Kimball Johnston Limon • Albert Lin • Megan & Mark Medeiros • Nick Dara O’Byrne • Ruairi O’Connell Devan Reiff • Megan Reineccius Robert Semper • Christopher Stuart • Jesse Suarez • Manny of your neighborhood? • Katherine Howe • Christopher • Michele King • James Jane Lin • Jenny H. Lin • Mediati • Alexandro Medina • • Edward Oelman • Liz Ogbu • • Wellington Reiter • John Sensenig • John Seravic • Dana Suarez • Bryan Subijano • Which SPUR initiative excites you most? Hrones • Alesia Hsiao • Tina (Yi Kingdon • Eric Kingsbury • Stephen Linaweaver • Norbert Marilyn Meier • Mark Meier • Diana Oldag • Loic Olichon • Rennels • Ned Resnikoff • Serleth • Michael D. Setty • Tim Roopika Subramanian • Rong I love the neon signs that have survived in The Voter Guide. The process for the ballot Hsuan) Hu • Chris Huang • Kat Sanford Kingsley • Nate Kinsey Lindenberg • Steve Line • Boris Mila Meldosian • Paul Mele • Roger Olpin • Anna Olsen • Michelle Reyes • Bree Reynolds Seufert • Gabriella Seviya • Sui • Anna Sukhovnin • Andrew San Jose. One of my favorites, on Lincoln Huang • Shaochen Huang • • Chris Kintner • Max Kirkeberg Lipkin • Robert J. Little • Leslie Monica Melkesian • Joshuah Kerby Olsen • Ted Olsson • • Linda Rhine • Mark Rhoades • Patrice Shaffer • Avni Shah • Sullivan • Cathleen Sullivan • analysis has really developed and matured Bjorn Hubert-Wallander • Kayla • John Kirkpatrick • Aron Littleton • Mark Lively • Mello • Melanie Melnyk • Julie Elizabeth O’Malley • Joseph Alexa Rhoads • Andrew Preeyanka Shah • Leah Shahum Edward Sullivan • Mimi Sullivan Ave in the Willow Glen neighborhood, was Hughes • Marc Hughes • Adam Kirschner • Wendy Kirst • Gary Kathleen Livermore • Daniel Mendel • Emy Mendoza • O’Neill • Jerry Ono • Vivian Ooi Rhodes • Michael Rice • Ken • Brian Shaw • Elaine Shaw • • Ben Sumers • Jessica Sun • over the years to reflect the wisdom of Hugo-Holman • Melissa T. Hung Kitahata • Paul Kitchell • Chris Livsey • Camille Llanes- Hydra Mendoza • Eve Menger • • John Oram • Alejandra Rich • Linda Fadeke Richardson Jeremy Shaw • Michael Shaw • Ronald Sundstrom • Kathy repurposed a few years ago from a dry the board. I may not always agree with • Donna Hurowitz • William Kitchen • Natalie Kitchen • Lisa Fontanilla • Alicia Lo • Jane Mermelstein • Cathy Orellana • Larry Orman • • James Richert • Stuart Megan K. Shea • Lucas Sutherland • Dave Sutter • cleaner. It sits atop a great restaurant that Hurrell • Joshua Hurwitz • Klairmont & Harold Kleiderman Raymond Lo • Michelle Loeb • Merrill • Michael Merrill • Thomas Osborne • Berdi Rickard • Molly Riddle • Shellhammer • Richard Sheng • John H. Sutter • R. Brook the recommendations, but the process is Huma Husain • Victor Husary • • Reid Kleckner • Michael Klein George Loew • Gavin Lohry • Nevada V. Merriman • Moria Oshidari • Calla Rose Ostrander William Riddle • Michael Riebe Rosa T. Sheng • Heather Sutton • Eri Suzuki • Ken reflects how Willow Glen and San Jose Julie Hutcheson • Ben • Frederick J. Klemeyer, Jr. • William N. Long, Jr. • Cheryl Merriweather • Wallace D. • Rishi Ostrowski • Michael • Nancy M. Rielle • Mike Riepe • Shepard • Taylor Shepard • Suzuki • Karl Sveinsson • Erin thoughtful and the result worthwhile. Hutchinson • Helen Hutchison • Donald Klingbeil • Michael Longinotti • Emily Loper • Mersereau • Claudia Merzario • Ottum • Marine Oudard • Derek Gregory Riessen • Megan Ring Katie Shepherd • Jonathan Swain • Samantha Swan • Brian have improved over the last five years.

40 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SPUR ANNUAL REPORT 41 Swanson • Isaac T. Swanson • Wasserman • Mike Wasserman Doug Shoemaker Bree Swenson • Ron Swenson • Ryan Michael Wassum • In-Kind Donors SPUR Board of Directors Credits • John H. Swift • Caroline Duncan Watry • Stanley AECOM President Swinehart • Paul & Gail Switzer Watson • Bert Weaver • Molly EDITOR Mercy Housing California • Joshua Switzky • Akos Wedel • Don Weden • Misha Airbnb Executive Board Diane Filippi Irene Chavez Szoboszlay • Tony Ta • Weidman • Jane Weil • Karen Steen Alaska Airlines Bob Gamble Thang Do San Francisco Board, SPUR Stephen & Sarah Taber • Nicole Nicholas Weininger • Adam CHAIR Tachiki • Asumu Takikawa • Weinstein • Emily Weinstein • ARC Document Solutions Peter Garza Scott Ekman DESIGN Sapna & Reaaz Talati-Silva • Josh Weinstein • David Tomiquia Moss John R. Talbott • Sharon Weinzimmer • Daniel Weisfield Arup Geoff Gibbs Josué García Shawn Hazen Talbott • Margaret Tamisiea • • Mark Weisman • Adam Weiss BART SECRETARY Ted Girdner Jim Grubb Nicola Tan • Ruth Tane • • Dana Weissman • Henry PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY Andrew Tang • Neal Taniguchi Wells • David Wemmer • Tom Matt Biggar Fran Weld Ed Harrington Leyla Hedayat Sergio Ruiz & Emily Murase • Peter Tannen Wenzel • David Werdegar, M.D. & David Strachan • Rachael • Chris Werner • Nic Werner • Bi-Rite Market Vince Hoenigman TREASURER Dori Yob Kilmer ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY Tanner • Aaron Tartakovsky • David Wertheimer • Judy Debbie Blackwell Ariane Hogan Dan Tasse • Travis Tate • Loren Wessing • Jennifer West • Anthony Lin Ed Harrington Page 11 courtesy NBBJ Taylor • Jon Teel • Kristoffer Nicole West • Bruce C. Brown and Caldwell Aidan Hughes Richard Lonergan Tendall • Fritz Terplan • Jack Westland & Greg Fritz • Larry Business Models OFFICERS Pages 7, 8, 14 Noah Christman Tesar • Jason Tester • Morgan Westland • Lauren Westreich • Aaron Johnson Connie Martinez Tfelt • Elizabeth Thelen-Torres Vanessa Whang • Nancy Civic Makers Michael Bangs Greg Johnson • Travis Theobald • George Whelan • Teresa Whinery • Dianne McKenna Page 16 Laura Tolkoff Theodorides • Ben Thomas • Julie Whitcomb • David White Clear Channel Outdoor Anagha Dandekar Clifford Nicholas Josefowitz Chris Neale Page 31 Kara Brodgesell Anthony Thompson • Peter • Jeffrey White • John White • Thang Do Charmaine Curtis Thompson • Amy Thomson • Pamela White • William White Susan Leal Jonathan Noble Pages 25 (upper left), 35, 36, 41, 42 J.J. Thorp • Sarah Thorpe • • Brittany Whitley • Wallace Dutch Embassy Jean Fraser Ellen Lou Trevor Thorpe • Erika Thost • Whittier • Jessica Wickens • Nuria Fernandez (ex officio) Trisha Leeper Matt Thrailkill • April Thygeson Brian Wiedenmeier • Andrew Anya & Kamal El-Wattar Garrett Herbert Masharika Prejean Maddison • Jane Tight • Jeffrey Till • Wietstock • Jonathan Wilde • Jason Rodriguez Page 37, 40 Andy Bosselman FIRST 5 Santa Clara County Ariane Hogan Angela Tillotson • John Nicholas Wilder • Julia Wilk • Hydra Mendoza What’s the first thing you do when you James Salata Tillotson • Julien Tinnes • Judy Anne Wilke • Nick Willard • Flatiron Wines & Spirits Nicholas Josefowitz Terry Micheau Page 38 Luke Thomas explore a new city? Tisdale • Joe Toback • L. Tom Willging • Bruce Williams Friends of Waterfront Seattle Tim Steele Thomas Tobin • Ian Todd • • Dustin Williams • Eric Masharika Prejean Maddison George Miller Page 39 courtesy the Unity Council Tony Tolentino • Joel Tomei • Williams • Laura Williams • Robert Steinberg I love taking a look at a pretty detailed Google Carl Shannon Joanna Tong • Joanne Regina Celestin Williams • Jeanne Myerson map to find the older pedestrian-oriented Vince Guasch Jean-Marie White Tornatore-Pili • Lola Torney • Brad Williford • Ciaran Wills • Robert Steinberg Rich Peterson residential neighborhoods. Bonus points if Jake Torrens • Joaquin Nava William Willson • Renee Dake Larry Hinh Mila Zelkha Torres • Ramiro Torres • James Wilson • Sadie Wilson • Peter Lydia Tan Rebecca Prozan I can get lost along the way. Touchstone • Joseph Towner • Winch • Benjamin Winig • Jane JJardine Catering & Events V. Fei Tsen Zachary Townsend • Mark Winslow • Robert Winsor • Dan Safier Nicholas Josefowitz & Tali Rapaport Trainer • Don Tran • Tam Tran • Molly Winston • Zachary Molly Turner Carl Shannon What civic project or initiative brings you Thy Tran • Paul D. Travis • Winston • Corinne Winter • Mike Kim Robert A. Wilkins Oakland Board the most hope for the future? Bernie Trilling • Samara Trilling Joanna Winter • Tori Winters • Doug Shoemaker • Jennifer Tsai • Camille Tsao • Zachary Witte • John Wix • Lawrence Li Joe Speicher I am biased, but it’s HOPE-SF, San Brittany Tse • Natalie Tse • Ryan Wold • Catherine Wolf • LinkedIn CHAIR Dima Tsenter • Kari Tsubota • Ron Wolf • Patrick Wolff • Francisco’s effort to rebuild the largest, Jack Sylvan Tong (John) Tu • Gregory Tung Andrew Wolfram • Emilie Lyft Anagha Dandekar Clifford most distressed public housing sites into • Jamie Turbak • Jay Turnbull • Wolfson • Helen Wolter • Alex Lydia Tan Jonathan Tyburski • Elaine Wong • Ashley Wong • Dennis Method San Francisco Board Eric Tao VICE CHAIR mixed-income communities. No one else Uang • Jason Uhlenkott • C. Wong • Greg Wong • Hing Microsoft Cynthia M. Ulman • David Wong • Howard Wong • Robert A. Wilkins nationally is trying to do this with such an CHAIR Gary Teague Umberg • Andrea Unsworth • Jonathan Wong • Kimberly Moscone Center John Updike • Erika Uribe • Wong • Lindsay Wong • V. Fei Tsen Jeffrey Till intense commitment to existing residents. DIRECTORS Stephanie Usry • Jerry Vail • Sharon Wong • Stephen Wong Nelson\Nygaard Ryan Joseph Valenzuela • • Robert Wood • Megan Joaquín Torres Perkins+Will VICE CHAIR Lindsay Baker If you could change one state or local Robert Vance • Bob & Mary Wooley-Ousdahl • Christian Jeff Tumlin Van Cleef • Martin Vanderlaan Wopperer • Roy Worthen • Joan Price Fred Blackwell level law, what would it be? Jean Fraser & Patricia Post • Allison Thaddeus Wozniak • Clyde Remix Molly Turner Vanderslice • Wietske van Erp Wright • Jon Wright • Moe Deborah Boyer The California Environmental Quality Act. DIRECTORS Francesca Vietor Taalman Kip • John Van Horne Wright • Angie Xiong • Nick Salesforce Dahlia Chazan It needs a major rethinking to enable • Marcus Van Leeuwen • Adam Xydes • Yujin Yamaai • Kiyomi San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Yat-Pang Au Fran Weld positive action instead of its current bias Varat • Jesus Vargas • Ani Yamamoto • Dihua Yan • Jerett Grace Crunican Vartanian • Sheila Vasantharam Yan • Takashi Yanai • Brian Siu San Francisco Business Times Peter Back Paul Woolford Oliver Cunningham towards inaction. • Diana Vasquez • Brian Vejby Yang • Jackie Yang • Wright David Baker • Sandra Venning • Susan Yang • Teresa Yanga • Evan Santa Clara County Public Health Charmaine Yu Bryant Francis Verba • Julia Verbrugge • Yao • Denny Yau • Jonathan Department Andy Barnes What one thing truly embodies the spirit Deborah Vick • Lauren Yip • Yosef Yip • Susan Yogi • Mike Ghielmetti Santa Clara County Social Services Agency Tiffany Bohee of your neighborhood? Viehbacher • Davide Vieira • Betsy York • Ashur Yoseph • Rene Vignos • Ernesto Vilchis • Donald C. Young • Eric Young • Adam Goldenberg Second Harvest Food Banks of Santa Clara Summer Bundy It’s a tie between Cole Hardware and Philip Vitale, Jr. • Jorge Vittes • Jason Zhengxi Young • Jeffry San Jose Board Noel Vivar • Carsten Voecker • Young • Mark Young • Laura Yu and San Mateo Counties Annabel Chang Chris Iglesias Grattan Elementary School. These are two Eric Von Berg • Alexandra • Mina Yu • Lisa Zahner • Silicon Valley Business Journal Tilly Chang CHAIRS Wayne Jordan places that I run into my neighbors and Vondeling • Konstantin Voronin Nurhaily Zaki • David Zandman • David Vossbrink • John Huan • Richard Zappelli • Angela South Bend Design Carmen Chu Garrett Herbert Robert Joseph friends anytime I go. Vu & Greg Ripa • Kara Vuicich Zhang • Eva Zhang • Guanyi • David Wada • Jennifer Zhang • Qinglan Zheng • Stamen Design Lewis Knight Madeline Chun VICE CHAIR Waggoner • Matthew Wagner Christina Zhou • Oliver Zhu • St. Clare Coffee Which SPUR initiative excites you most? • Tim Wagner • Clifford Eric Zickler • Matthew Zientek Emilio Cruz Ken Lowney Robert Steinberg & Alice Erber Lydia Tan The Regional Strategy. It’s exciting to think Waldeck • Andrew Walker • • Eli Zigas & Savanna Ferguson Charmaine Curtis Tomiquia Moss Chris Walker • Justin Walker • • Jess Wendover Zimbabwe • Molly Turner about the inter-connectedness of technol- Tom Walker • Jay Wallace • Litha E. Zuber • Sara Zumwalt Kim-Mai Cutler DIRECTORS Manan Shah Erica Waltemade • Winifred • Daniel Zweig • Kevin Zwick Twitter ogy, housing, the environment and trans- Walters • Shamann Walton • Sheryl Davis Jaye Bailey Joshua Simon Uproar Brewing portation. I have an image of The Jetsons Leopold Wambersie • Andrew Stephen Engblom Michael Bangs Bill Stotler Wang • Kalvin Wang • Timothy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts vs. Blade Runner competing for the future Wang • Vivian Wang • John Q. Donald Falk Seth Bland Riaz Taplin Ware • Richard D. Warren • Zendesk of the Bay Area. Christopher Wasney • David Tyra Fennell J. Richard Braugh Elñora Webb

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