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50 Years of Spur 100 Years of Building a Better City Issue 482 Agents of Change p5 Summer programming p26 Ironies of history p32 Planning in pieces p35 City of plans p45 Your turn! The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association is 6|7.09 a member-supported nonprofit organization. Our mission is to promote good planning and good government through research, education and advocacy. Write to us at [email protected] SPUR Urbanist AGENTS OF CHANGE: AGENTS Published monthly by San Francisco SPUR Staff Events Manager Volunteer and Planning & Urban Kelly Hardesty x120 Intern Team Leader Research Association Still time to get SPUR main number [email protected] Jordan Salinger x136 415.781.8726 [email protected] on the boat! Deputy Director Membership Manager Sarah Karlinsky x129 Development Vickie Bell x121 [email protected] Associate [email protected] Rachel Seltzer x116 Public Engagement [email protected] 11th Annual Bay Accountant Director Terri Chang x128 Julie Kim x112 Transportation THE CITY BUILDERS Discovery Cruise [email protected] [email protected] Policy Director Dave Snyder x135 Citizen Planning Development Director [email protected] C M onday June 8, 2009 Institute Director Amie Latterman x115 IVI THE PROGRESSIVES & CLASSICISTS Jim Chappell x125 [email protected] Capital Campaign C [email protected] Manager ID Event Assistant Sarah Sykes x123 Join us for dinner, dancing Publications Assistant Nikki Lazarus x119 [email protected] EA Mary Davis x126 [email protected] and to see the latest in [email protected] Sustainable Develop- LI Administrative Director ment Policy Director S 50 Bay Bridge construction! Urban Center Director Lawrence Li x134 Laura Tam x137 M Diane Filippi x110 [email protected] [email protected] THE REGIONALISTS AN YEARS [email protected] Executive Director Regional Planning Go to spur.org/baycruise for D Executive Assistant/ Gabriel Metcalf x113 Director OF SPUR tickets and information. Board Liaison [email protected] Egon Terplan x131 THE Virginia Grandi x117 [email protected] [email protected] 100 M A THE MODERNS YEARS OF KI NG BUILDING First Class Mail OF US Postage THE CONTEXTUALISTS A BETTER PAID SAN Permit # 4118 CITY San Francisco, CA THE ECO-URBANISTS RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED F R ANC 654 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105-4015 tel. 415.781.8726 I SCO fax 415.781.7291 S PECIAL ISSUE [email protected] www.spur.org Time-dated material This newsletter is printed on New Leaf Rennaissance paper: 100% recycled fiber and 50% post-consumer waste. Welcome to 06/07.09 LETTEF R ROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS our new members! I NDIVIDUALS Rachel Malchow Why I gave to the Bernadine Adams Yolanda Manzone Welcome to the Urban Center Harvey Allen Jesse Martinez Community Campaign for Alex Amoroso Richard McDerby Greg Andreas Mark Miller the SPUR Urban Center William Andrews Megan Miller David N. Arnav Lena Miyamoto Monica Arriola Andre Morand Richard A. Sucre, Betsy Baum Mary L. Murphy On behalf of the SPUR Board of Directors, we Fast forward 50 years, to the present moment. Noah Beil Francesca Napolitan Associate/Architectural Historian, would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you We are in a period of what can only be called “heavy Terry Betterly Bernard Niechlanski Page + Turnbull and proud urbanist David Boesch Ruairi O’Connell — our hard-working members and supporters — to lifting.” While the economy of the world is thrashing Geoff Bomba Paul O’Driscoll the SPUR Urban Center. Some of you are long-time around us, we are doing our best at SPUR to keep Margaret Brodkin Larry Orman supporters who have been in the SPUR family for planning and governance in this city and region on Darcy Brown Brian Overland “ I love the neighborhoods and thrive on the vitality of cities! Shelly Brown Marcia Packlick years, even decades, witnesses to the growth and track. And if that isn’t hard enough, we are also Erin Burg Hupp Matt Pagel change that have defined both our organization and working on the final stages of raising $4 million more I gave because I believe in SPUR’s mission, and realize that Caitlin Cameron Michael A. Pearce this great city and region we call home. to finish our capital campaign in a soft economy. the Urban Center is much needed in our community.” Joe Castorena Katie Pethan Others of you are new members. Perhaps you That said, we also find ourselves in a time of Ryan Chamberlain Karolina Pormanczuk Claire Cheng Carrie Portis joined because you value SPUR’s unparalleled great opportunity and excitement. On the national We need your support to help us reach our $18 million capital campaign goal. Zaheen Chowdhury Leslie Pritchett research in local and regional policy matters and want level, we are seeing the re-emergence of a strong Please consider making your gift — of any amount — today! Call Sarah Sykes at Christopher Colvin Adina Ringler to support our in-depth policy work. Perhaps you urban agenda after decades of policies supporting 415.781.8726 x123 for more information. Mark Conrad Cygridh Rooney want to learn more from our excellent publications and subsidizing unregulated suburban expansion. Kelly Corter Kelly Peter Sahmel Holly Dabral Tanu Sankalia and exhibitions in the Urban Center. Or maybe you’re Locally and regionally, we have made great progress Raymond del Portillo Brian Sauer a Young Urbanist, a member of our fastest growing in sustainable planning (with the recent passage of Todd Dell’Aquila Alisa Shen membership group. SB 375, California’s anti-sprawl bill) and investing in Earl Diskin Tatyana Sheyner Dina Dobkin Steven Shum regional transportation (securing over $9 billion in the SPUR Board of Directors C hairs and committees However long you’ve been in the SPUR community Michael Eiseman Heidi Sieck — and for whatever reason — the Urban Center is for last election for a high-speed rail system and moving Benjamin Sisson Co-Chairs Board Members John Madden PROGRAM Doyle Drive Earned Revenue Kristine Enea Vanessa Eng Robert Stevenson you. Thank you and welcome. We could not think of a forward with planning for the Transbay Terminal). We Andy Barnes Michael Alexander Jacinta McCann COMMITTEES Amanda Bill Stotler Courtney Fink William Strawn more fitting way to celebrate SPUR’s 50th anniversary, have also made great strides in local climate change Tom Hart Jim Andrew Jr. Mary McCue Hoenigman Ballot Analysis Executive Alison Fish Masako Martha and an even longer tradition of citizen involvement in policy, planning for a major earthquake and furthering John McNulty Eph Hirsh Suzuki David Baker Bob Gamble Andy Barnes Cecilia Fisher improving San Francisco. the smart growth agenda by channeling jobs into Executive Peter Winkelstein Michael Flaherman Andy Szybalski Fred Blackwell Chris Meany Peter Mezey downtown employment centers. Director Finance William Fleissig Starr Terrell Lee Blitch Ezra Mersey Greg Wagner SB 375 Gabriel Metcalf Terry Micheau Kathryn Fowler Julie Trachtenberg The opening of the Urban Center is perhaps the Zooming in even further — to SPUR’s new Margo Bradish Peter Mezey Andy Barnes Disaster Planning Nicole Franklin Paul Travis biggest change for the organization since the San headquarters in the Yerba Buena district — we are Pamela Brewster Leroy Morishita Tay Via Major Donors Adrienne Frieden Scott Truitt Urban Center Jacinta McCann Francisco Planning and Housing Association — a looking forward to an expansion of the organization’s Laurence Burnett Dick Morten Linda Jo Fitz Jessica Garcia Derek Turner Director Dick Morten citizens group founded in 1910 by Alice Griffith, Dr. platform for good policy, and an increase in our ability Michaela Cassidy Tomiquia Moss Brian O’Neill Marjorie Gelin Elaine Uang Diane Filippi Chris Poland Op ERATING Rebecca Glyn Dennis Vermeulen Emilio Cruz Mary Murphy Langley Porter and others to advocate for decent to reach and engage with a broader audience. In the COMMITTEES Individual Gail Goldyne Rene Vignos Housing housing conditions — was reorganized into SPUR in Urban Center, we will continue SPUR’s long-time Charmaine Curtis Paul Okamoto Membership Tommy Golen Willem Vroegh Vice-Chairs Ezra Mersey Audit 1959. tradition of lunchtime forums. We will also have Gia Daniller Brad Paul Bill Stotler Jawj Greenwald Randy Waldeck Lisa Feldstein Lydia Tan Peter Mezey That tradition of research and action continues exhibits, open to SPUR members and the general Kelly Dearman Tim Paulson Richard Gross Brian Walker Andy Barnes (top) Linda Jo Fitz Board Investment Penelope Grzebik Scott Walton Shelly Doran Chris Poland Project Review and Tom Hart are today, almost 100 years since the Association issued public, mounted in our new streetfront gallery. Please Bob Gamble Development Stanley Herzstein Kevin Hart Tony Wan Oz Erickson Teresa Rea Reuben Schwartz co-chairs of the its first report on anti-tenement reform, which led stop by to explore SPUR’s inaugural exhibition, “Agents Jim Salinas, Sr. Jim Andrew Julia Harter Jayson Wechter Luisa Ezquerro Byron Rhett Human Resources Michael Hicks Lisa Weiner to the State Tenement Act of 1911. The Association of Change: Civic Idealism and the Making of San Libby Seifel Sustainable Building SPUR Board of Linda Jo Fitz Bill Rosetti Anne Halsted Tina Hodgson Steve Wertheim Francisco.” The exhibition — also the focus of this Lyida Tan Development Management Directors. continued to be an active voice for housing concerns Josie Howard, M.D. Julie Whitcomb Norman Fong Victor Seeto Paul Okamoto Larry Burnett Silver SPUR through the next two decades, before they were joined special edition of the Urbanist — covers every major Justin Huang Christie White Frank Fudem Chi-Hsin Shao by Telesis — a passionate group of architects and urban planning movement in our city’s history. It tells Treasurer Bry Sarte Business David Hartley David Hunt Nicholas White Gillian Gillet Raphael Sperry Membership Patricia Klitgaard planners who saw better cities as the path toward a the story of how the San Francisco Bay Area came to Terry Micheau Transportation Devyani Jain Ruby Woo Chris Gruwell Bill Stotler Tom Hart Chris Jensen Dee Dee Workman Gillian Gillett Bay Discovery better society.
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