2019 Annual Report

1 2 What would it look like to solve the housing shortage, make transformative investments in transportation, tackle climate change and use the region’s prosperity for the benefit of all?

SPUR brings people together to address the most pressing problems facing the cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. SPUR’s Agenda for Change

Regional Planning Concentrate growth inside existing cities.

Community Planning Build great neighborhoods.

Housing Make it affordable to live here.

Transportation Give people better ways to get where they need to go.

Economic Development Lay the foundations of economic prosperity — for everyone.

Sustainability + Resilience Reduce our ecological footprint and make our cities resilient.

Good Government Build the capacity of the public sector.

4 Throughout our 109-year history, SPUR’s role has been to facilitate a conversation about the future of the city.

Our Organization Has Evolved Over Time

Our story began in 1910, when a group of young 1910–1940 1959–1977 city leaders came together to improve the San Francisco Housing San Francisco Planning and quality of housing in San Francisco after the Association Urban Renewal Association 1906 earthquake and fire. In the decades since, (SFHA) (SPUR) SPUR has been involved in virtually every major planning issue in the region. 1940–1942 1977–2012 With the opening of offices in San Jose San Francisco Housing and San Francisco Planning and and Oakland, SPUR has become a regional Planning Association Urban Research Association organization focused on issues facing the cities (SFHPA) (SPUR) of the Bay Area. We are still leading a conversation about how to imagine a better 1942–1959 2012 urban future. San Francisco Planning and SPUR: San Francisco Bay Housing Association Area Planning and Urban (SFPHA) Research Association

5 1965 > As part of the movement to protect the Bay from rampant fill and shoreline development, SPUR helps create the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. > 1910 1950 1972 In the aftermath of the 1906 The Next Million People, an earthquake and fire (see image on SFPHA exhibit at the San The Golden Gate National Rec- previous page), the San Francisco Francisco Museum of Modern reation Area is established after Housing Association forms Art, explores regional growth years of organizing by SPUR, to fight for decent housing and management, an increasingly the Sierra Club and hundreds of sensible rebuilding. central concern for the volunteers. It remains one of the organization. largest urban parks in the world.

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1911 1957 1973 1985 The first report of the Housing The California legislature San Francisco adopts its Transit San Francisco adopts the Association leads the state approves the creation of the Bay First policy based on a SPUR Downtown Plan, including SPUR’s to adopt its first regulations on Area Rapid Transit District report directing the city to add recommendations on shaping tenement construction. (BART). The SFPHA is deeply transportation capacity without growth in the city’s downtown involved with advocacy adding cars. core. and planning. > > > 1996

San Francisco’s new City Charter > 2015 of work by SPUR and others to draft and win public approval for expanding our work to the three a modern constitution for the city. largest cities of the Bay Area.

2008 > 2015 SPUR launches the Resilient 2012 The Presidio Parkway opens, City initiative, a comprehensive SPUR leads development of replacing seismically unsafe the Ocean Beach Master Plan, Doyle Drive. SPUR members retrofit the buildings and a comprehensive vision to proposed and advocated for infrastructure that sustain city address sea level rise, protect the new design, which creates life. Today SPUR’s definition infrastructure, restore ecosystems a grand entrance to the Golden of resilience is used by cities and improve public access on Gate Bridge and reconnects the around the world. San Francisco’s coast. Presidio with Crissy Field.

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1999 2007 2013 2018 Based on a SPUR proposal, SPUR publishes a groundbreaking SPUR embarks on a new chapter SPUR launches the Regional San Francisco launches report on the Northern California Strategy, a multiyear initiative the Better Neighborhoods megaregion, calling for a San Jose. to envision a more equitable Program to engage communities redefinition of regional planning. and sustainable future for the in guiding neighborhood Bay Area. change. Plans for Market and Octavia and other neigh- 2018 borhoods balance growth San Francisco’s Transbay Transit with preservation. Center first opens to bus > service. When completed, the project will realize SPUR’s vision to connect high-speed rail, Caltrain and bus service, linking

> San Francisco to the South Bay and beyond.

7 Today, SPUR is starting a conversation about the Bay Area of 2070.

The San Francisco Bay Area is known as a place of progressive values and principles that have long guided SPUR’s work, rooted social values and original ideas — the home of gay marriage in our Agenda for Change. and the farmworkers’ movement, leading tech companies and T pioneering climate change policies. Francisco, San Jose and Oakland, interviewed hundreds of But for many who live and work here, there is a gulf people in communities around the Bay Area and visited cities between who we believe ourselves to be and the region we from the North Bay to the Central Valley, engaging local leaders have actually created. We face serious challenges that endanger and community members to gain a better understanding of the our future: a severe housing shortage, grinding commutes and region’s diverse perspectives. far too many people left out of the region’s prosperity. Our In the first year of the initiative, SPUR published Four Future Scenarios for the San Francisco Bay Area, which laid sense of anxiety and loss. out the critical forces and uncertainties shaping the region Mee and presented four radically divergent scenarios for its future. the horizon — will require bold and coordinated action. Earlier The most hopeful of these became the basis of the Regional generations invested in the region by building BART, saving the Strategy vision. It envisions a future where the Bay Area’s Bay and preserving our beloved open spaces. economic prosperity continues but is shared more equitably. In this future, the region embraces inclusion and commits to What might this generation do to secure a better future for solving problems collectively. the place we call home? For the next two years, SPUR and its partners on the Regional Strategy will continue digging into the tough The SPUR Regional Strategy questions, asking what it would take to truly make the region

SPUR launched a major new initiative in 2018: the SPUR to face the climate crisis head on. We believe it’s possible for Regional Strategy. Through research, analysis and broad-based the Bay Area to provide a model of sustainability, inclusion and dialogue, we hope to paint an aspirational picture of a better opportunity and to accommodate new people and new jobs future for the Bay Area and propose actionable strategies to while not just protecting but improving this magnificent place. get there. The work is organized around four themes — Places, The initiative will conclude in 2021 with the publication of Transportation, Economy and Environment — and built on the the SPUR Regional Strategy.

8 Our report Four Future Scenarios for the San Francisco Bay Area envisions a future where the region’s prosperity is shared more equitably.

9 San Jose’s Guadalupe River Park

1010 Research Identify pressing problems and develop strategies to solve them.

A CLIMATE ADAPTATION BETTER MAPS = ATLAS FOR THE BAY BETTER MOBILITY SPUR and the San Francisco Estuary Institute completed The Navigating transit in the Bay Area is complicated. Each of San Francisco Bay Shoreline Adaptation Atlas, a pioneering the region’s 27 operators develops its own map, using a wide framework for sea level rise adaptation. The atlas divides the range of styles, symbols, graphics and language. In 2018, we Bay shoreline into 30 distinct locations and provides strategies worked with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and suited to the unique landscapes, watersheds and shorelines transit operators to develop a regional map that for the first of each one. In profiling more than 20 adaptation strategies to prepare for rising seas, the atlas makes the case for nature- place. Building on this work, we published Finding Transit, a based solutions and their benefits over traditional flood control set of recommendations that transit agencies can use to create measures — including improved habitat, water access and better maps and make the Bay Area transit system easier to recreation. Bay Area agencies, including the Bay Conservation understand, navigate — and use. and Development Commission and San Mateo and Marin counties, are already using the framework in sea level rise A BLUEPRINT FOR SAN planning. FRANCISCO’S NEXT MAYOR

Before the June 2018 election, SPUR published San Francisco’s > RE-ENVISIONING SAN JOSE’S Next Mayor: A Blueprint for Change, a set of policy goals for the GUADALUPE RIVER PARK next mayor to use in addressing the city’s most pressing needs. SPUR launched an initiative to help re-envision the Guadalupe River Park, an underappreciated natural resource in downtown have pushed forward several of SPUR’s priorities. To generate San Jose. To begin considering the river’s potential as a central million housing bond on the November 2019 ballot. To reduce working with Hood Design Studio to host a public engagement the time to review and approve housing proposals, Mayor Breed process that identified key areas for research and analysis. We appointed the city’s first director of housing delivery. And to presented this preliminary work in an interactive exhibition and scale up temporary homeless shelters immediately, the mayor white paper. We will be working in partnership with the City of set a public goal to open 1,000 temporary shelter beds by 2020. San Jose and the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy to identify opportunities and potential barriers and recommend design and policy ideas.

11 Community members gather at SPUR’s share their values and vision for the future of the Bay Area. Education Foster public dialogue about the future of cities.

IN 2018, WE WELCOMED MORE THAN 9,500 CREATING TRANSIT- PEOPLE TO 220 PUBLIC EVENTS IN SAN CENTERED CITIES FRANCISCO, SAN JOSE AND OAKLAND. Decades from now, will the redesigned Diridon Station be a hub of activity that teems with mobility options — or a missed

gathered national and international experts to share best > practices for planning world-class transit stations and active A COMMUNITY VISION FOR THE BAY AREA IN 2070 groups, planners and transit agencies came together to help This year, SPUR began planning its first-ever Regional Strategy develop a vision and reflect on the legacy that, decision by for the Bay Area, an aspirational picture of what the region decision, leaders will create for Diridon. could be like 50 years from now and a road map for how to get there. To help us launch the project, nearly 200 community members in San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland came OAKLAND PROBLEM together to flesh out what a better future would look like. We SOLVERS SERIES heard about their concerns for the region today, as well as their SPUR hosted a series of convenings to bring East Bay business values and vision for charting a more hopeful direction over the leaders together with the heads of public agencies to discuss next half century. Oakland’s biggest challenges and help troubleshoot solutions. Questions included how BART can meet its ambitious goals MINDING — AND MENDING — Oakland’s specific plan process and how AC Transit can develop THE TRANSPORTATION GAPS its workforce of tomorrow. The transit experience in the Bay Area is marked by gaps that make it challenging for riders to use the many services available: gaps in service, gaps in information, gaps HOW WE MOVE between how the transit network functions today and how SPUR’s exhibition How We Move catalogued 92 things that it could perform. At this year’s Transit + Design Workshops — move us — from elephants to electric scooters to airships. Our our fourth in San Francisco and first ever in San Jose — the transportation taxonomy grouped comparable modes into sessions focused on research and design tools that transit families, providing new ways to think about how people around planners and enthusiasts can use to fill in the gaps that detract the world travel from city to city, from place to place and from from a great transit customer experience. anywhere to home.

13 SPUR proposes that downtown Oakland’s economic growth should provide benefits for everyone.

14 Advocacy Work with decision-makers to put new policies into practice.

BIG WIN: VOTERS SUPPORT released a preliminary draft of its Downtown Oakland Specific REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION FUNDING Plan. We are pleased that the plan lays out a strategy to support In June, equity goals that will help the city center reach its potential as a which will raise funds from bridge tolls to help bring BART to true downtown for everyone. Silicon Valley, connect Caltrain and high-speed rail to downtown San Francisco, expand Muni’s fleet and more. The passing of A VISION FOR THE RM3 will make $4.45 billion available to invest in transportation DIRIDON STATION AREA systems across the Bay Area and help meet the region’s Over the past year, SPUR participated in the Diridon Station sustainability goals. SPUR co-chaired the RM3 campaign with Area Advisory Group, helping plan the vision, design and Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the Bay Area Council. community benefits for the redevelopment of the land surrounding San Jose’s central train station, including Google’s SF ADOPTS MAJOR AREA PLAN plans for an employment and residential village. A key FOR CENTRAL SOMA component of this discussion was the sale of public land for the Seven years in the making, the Central SoMa Plan was adopted future Google development. SPUR endorsed the sale, which was by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors late in 2018. The approved in December, and advocated for good planning and plan will enable the creation of 16 million square feet of transit-oriented housing and commercial space, along with $2 SAN FRANCISCO VOTES TO transit improvements and open space. Given Central SoMa’s RETROFIT ITS SEAWALL key location near Caltrain, the Transbay Transit Center and the San Francisco voters passed a $425 million bond to repair Financial District, SPUR has been calling for the creation of this the city’s hundred-year-old Embarcadero seawall and retrofit plan since our 2007 report A New Transit-First Neighborhood it to withstand earthquakes. The seawall supports the city’s historic piers and maritime uses, protects low-lying downtown

> PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH areas from flooding, and underpins utility networks including IN DOWNTOWN OAKLAND BART, Muni, ferries, and the sewer and water systems. Phase In our 2015 report A Downtown for Everyone, SPUR proposed II of the project will undertake long-term climate resilience that downtown Oakland was poised to take on a more and adaptation. SPUR sits on the steering committee for the important role in the region and that its economic growth rebuilding project. We supported the bond and will continue to should provide benefits to all. After many years of work, the city advocate for funding the work to come.

15 BAY AREA COMES TOGETHER In the event of a major earthquake on the Hayward Fault, ON CASA COMPACT soft-story buildings are expected to represent two-thirds SPUR was part of a diverse team of Bay Area planners, housing of the housing losses in Oakland. In December, the Oakland and tenant advocates, developers, business leaders and labor City Council adopted a new law requiring landlords to retrofit representatives that came together to develop and negotiate a soft-story apartment buildings built before the 1991 building package of 10 key housing policies to address the region’s grave code update. housing challenges. Proposals ranged from safeguarding tenant protections to streamlining housing approval processes. The BART LAUNCHES STUDY OF package, the CASA Compact, was endorsed by the Metropolitan A SECOND BAY CROSSING Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Since the BART Transbay Tube opened in 1974, the Bay Area has Governments and next heads to the California legislature for grown from 4.3 million to 7.6 million people, yet we have added no new capacity through the tube or on the Bay Bridge. As a

EXPANDING ACCESS TO the Bay. SPUR’s white paper Designing the Bay Area’s Second HEALTHY FOOD Transbay Rail Crossing called for the region to fund and initiate SPUR’s Double Up Food Bucks Program makes healthy food a planning and design process for a second crossing. In 2016 we urged voters to support a BART bond to fund this work. Late the program from three to five grocery stores in San Jose and last year, BART, in partnership with Capital Corridor, initiated a Gilroy. We also helped secure $9 million and state legislation to make Double Up and other programs like it scale more crossing. easily across California. With renewed support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, SPUR plans to expand the program SF ELIMINATES MINIMUM > further in the coming three years. PARKING REQUIREMENTS This year, San Francisco became the first major city to eliminate OAKLAND REQUIRES SEISMIC RETROFITS FOR minimum parking requirements for new development, reducing VULNERABLE APARTMENTS One of SPUR’s key recommendations for earthquake resilience of land by replacing spaces for cars with spaces for people. is the seismic upgrade of “soft story” apartment buildings, SPUR has called for this reform many times over the years in those with multiple ground-floor openings like garage doors. policy reports and in our

1616 388 Fulton, on designed with no the right, is one parking spots, making of San Francisco’s first market-rate and freeing up space residential buildings for other uses.

17 Financials Income Earned Revenues $8,022,384 10% Fiscal Year total $772,959 2018–2019

Grants Membership 32% 35% $2,552,341 $2,834,684

Special Events 23% $1,862,399

Expenses Administration 8% $8,022,384 $646,149 total

Statement of Financial Position

As of March 31, 2019 Development Policy, programs 13% & publications $1,048,084 79% Assets $6,328,151 Current Assets $6,567,969 Long Term Assets $11,879,727

TOTAL ASSETS $18,447,696

Liabilities $3,135,436

NET ASSETS $15,312,260

18 President’s At SPUR, we believe in the power and promise of cities.

Letter Cities have the power to create and model solutions to social challenges — from sea The Power for all. and Promise But delivering on this potential is not inevitable. As more and more people seek to live in the Bay Area, our collective choices will determine whether we grow in ways that of Cities are socially inclusive and environmentally conscious, whether we serve as a place of opportunity and refuge for immigrants, whether we sustain our economic dynamism and expand prosperity’s reach.

to build our lives and follow our dreams. Cities also require us to participate in a social contract, to acknowledge that our individual wellbeing and our collective wellbeing are mutually dependent.

At SPUR, we work across the political spectrum to ensure that our collective steward- ship of the region is thoughtful. We seek to strengthen the Bay Area’s social contract so that growth supports our aspirations for a sustainable, inclusive, prosperous region. We could not do this work without the support of our members, and to each of you we are deeply grateful. Thank you for your partnership. Together, we can deliver on both the power and the promise of our cities.

Sincerely,

Alicia John-Baptiste President and CEO

19 SPUR Annual Contributors

SPUR gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions made by the following organizations and individuals in 2018.

Special Thanks to Our Foundations & Leslie Family Foundation Regional Strategy Donors Grant Support Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 11th Hour Project Metropolitan Transportation Clarence E. Heller Charitable Applied Materials Foundation Commission Foundation California Health Care Foundation New Belgium Family Foundation Curtis Infrastructure Initiative Clif Bar Family Foundation Pisces Foundation Dignity Health The David and Lucile Packard San Francisco Foundation Facebook Foundation Santa Clara County Social Services Genentech East Bay Community Foundation Agency The John S. and James L. Knight Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund The Schauble Family Foundation Foundation FIRST 5 Santa Clara Ccounty Seed Fund Marin Community Foundation Gaia Fund S.H. Cowell Foundation George Miller Good Ventures Silicon Valley Community Foundation Sage Foundation The Health Trust Stupski Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation Hellman Foundation Sunlight Giving Foundation Stanford University The Herbst Foundation Toeniskoetter Family Foundation Additional funding provided by The James Irvine Foundation TomKat Foundation AECOM, Fund for the Environment The John & Marcia Goldman U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Urban Life, Hellman Foundation Insecurity Nutrition Incentive Grant Foundation, Microsoft and the Seed Program Fund. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Walter and Elise Haas Fund Kaiser Permanente South Bay Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Koret Foundation

20 We apologWei zaepologi for anzye omifor asnsioy nomis osrsio inancscu or acinaiesccu torac thiesis li tsotin thgis an lisdtin wigll an pudbl wiishll paunybl cisorh raencytio cornsr eact twwionsw .aspt wwur.owrg.s. puThir.so rligs.t Trehpisr esliset nrepts rgeiftsesn mats gidefts in m 2a0de18. in 2018. BOARD PROFILE Legacy Society Individuals who have included SPUR in their estate planning. Michael Alexander & Dianna Tyra Fennell Waggoner Founding Director Imprint City North Baker* San Francisco Board, SPUR Andy & Sara Barnes Alvin H. Baum Annette L. Billingsley & Terry What one thing best represents your neighborhood? Bergmann The Hunters Point gantry crane, which has lived in Bayview– Hunters Point in San Francisco since 1947 and is known as the Jim Chappell mightiest crane in the world. Rob Evans & Terry Micheau Diane Filippi What SPUR initiative are you most passionate about? Linda Jo Fitz board about land use, transportation and how to grow San Francisco in a responsible way by thinking about both local David A. Friedman and regional solutions. Bryan E. Grunwald If you could magically pass one state or local law, what Anne Halsted would it be? Jane & David Hartley to address poverty in America. I would fully support free, Vincent & Amanda Hoenigman universal legal access in civil cases. James Jeong Toby & Jerry Levine What civic initiative gives you hope for the future? As a new employer and someone who is self-employed, I am Robert Steinberg & Alice Erber excited about the Medicare for All movement, which would Stephen & Sarah Taber simplify paying for health care and lower the total cost. Lydia Tan What is the most important thing we should teach the civic Peter Tannen & David Strachan leaders of tomorrow? Brooks Walker III Patronize, visit and meet residents from the neighborhoods you serve and care about. Economic empowerment of these communities is paramount to their success, and engaging with their residents builds better empathy and understanding.

*Deceased. 21 President’s Circle Benefactors Urban Leaders Bruce Agid Alvin H. Baum Yat-Pang & Helina Au Council Sasha Aickin & Jason Tester Steven Bills Michael Alexander & Dianna Linda Jo Fitz David Baker & Yosh Asato Waggoner Ben Blumenfeld & Jocelyn Verda Alexander David A. Friedman & Andy & Sara Barnes Ross Chris Beckmann Paulette J. Meyer Alan Billingsley & John Podolsky Eliza Brown & Hal Candee Annette L. Billingsley & Terry Nicholas Josefowitz Claudine Cheng Jim Chappell Bergmann Madeline Chun Cece Blase Dan & Jackie Safier David Coulter & Susan Weeks John Bliss & Kim Thompson Thang Do Matt Bornski Stephen Silberstein Oz Erickson & Rina Alcalay Doris Fisher Robin Bot-Miller V. Fei Tsen & Wayne Lew Diane Filippi & Ephraim Hirsch Aaron J. Johnson Deborah Boyer Bonnie Fisher & Boris Dramov Sean Johnston Summer Bundy Ron & Barbara Kaufman Sally Carlson Anne Halsted & Wells Whitney Danielle Kramer Michaela Cassidy & Terry David & Jane Hartley Whitney Edward & Nancy Conner Marco “Mick” W. & Sabrina Toby & Jerry Levine Jacob Donham Hellman Marsha Maytum & Bill Leddy Arthur Evans Vincent & Amanda Hoenigman Dianne McKenna Gary & Jane Facente Don Falk John Kriken Steven Merrill Terence & Abigail Meurk Dan & Laura Fingal-Surma Richard & Marilyn Lonergan Robert & Randi Fisher Beverly Mills David Fleishhacker Jacinta McCann & Joe Brown Jeanne Myerson Terry Micheau & Rob Evans Christopher Roach Creed George A. Miller & Janet McKinley Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Douglas Goldman Charles & Trudy Salter Derek Gordon Bill & Dewey Rosetti John Grcina Mark Schlesinger & Christine Jennifer Gridley Bill & Alice Russell-Shapiro Russell Claude Gruen Paul Sack Carl Shannon Kieran Gupta Luke Swartz Gene Schnair & Abby Sadin Maud Hallin Schnair Roselyne C. Swig Nina Hatvany Margaret Swink & Robert Alfred E. & Ruth Heller John & Gussie Stewart Saliba Stanley D. Herzstein & Lynn Lydia Tan & John Barton Jack Sylvan Altshuler Dennis Hopkins Leah Toeniskoetter James C. Hormel & Michael P. Molly S. Turner Nguyen Fran Weld Laurie A. Johnson, AICP Burton Kendall & Sally Towse David & Barbara Kimport Michael H. Kossman

22 *Deceased. BOARD PROFILE

David H. Kremer Planners Sharky Laguana Richard Bender William Laney & Pasha Thornton Mark & Susie Tompkins Buell Marya D’Abate Barbara Lawrence Jamie D’Alessandro Lydia Tan Robert Lawrence Marsha Gale Managing Director, Real Estate Frankie Lee Oakland Athletics Mark Liang Evan Gross Vice Chair, San Jose Board, SPUR Ellen Lou Michael Gross Jessica Lunney Craig Heckman Joshua Karlin-Resnick David J. Madson Laurence Kornfield Erik Malmstrom Susan Leal What one thing best represents your neighborhood? Jonathan Manzo Scott Lefaver My husband and I have the unique opportunity to live on Paul S. McCauley & Joan A. Kugler Ross Levy campus at Stanford University, in an undergraduate dorm. Robert McGrew James R. Lightbody The space that best represents our “neighborhood” is the Teron McGrew John & Monica Marcone Bob Mclaughlin Rebecca Möller dining hall. The combination of students around the table is Bob Nuñez Michael Molesky James Paxson from silly to compelling. Constance B. Moore Shannon Peloquin Adhi & Caitlyn Nagraj Regina Phelps John J. Parman Dom Price What’s your favorite way to get to know a new city? Glenn Rescalvo Kevin Pursglove I love staying in a neighborhood for an extended period of James Richert Jose Tony Rodriguez time, renting an apartment, using public transportation, Toby Rosenblatt Marci Riseman & Evan Sagerman Lynn & Paul Sedway hitting the local markets and restaurants. I get at least a small Richard Rosenberg Rich Shrieve sense of the rhythm of the city from a resident’s point of view. John M. Sanger Dan Slaughter Margaret V. Sheehan Kyle Smith If you could magically pass one state or local law, what Debbie & Michael Shepherd Kelly Snider would it be? Michael Siliski & Robyn Lamar Geraldine Steinberg Erik Strahm Revamp the state’s tax system to make housing as financially Mark Slee Robert R. Tufts compelling as commercial development — or even more so. Michael Spiegelman Melissa Weese Michael Teitz Kate White What civic initiative gives you hope for the future? Irene Lindbeck Tibbits Steven Winkel Richard Tower David Woltering Local citizens starting to organize in favor of housing, density Will Travis Roger Wu and other smart-growth issues. Paul M. Wythes, Jr. What is the most important thing we should teach the civic John D. Weeden* leaders of tomorrow? Robert Wilkins It is essential for civic leaders to think beyond their time in Jennifer Wolch Anthony Wu terms of generational impact as they make decisions. Jacqueline L. Young Suelyn Yu Madeleine Zayas Ben Zotto

23 Urban Infrastructure Council Civic Tech Council BRIDGE Housing Corporation AECOM Airbnb Cargill Aedis Architects Autodesk CBRE ARCADIS Dropbox Cisco Systems Arup Facebook City and County of San Francisco BKF Engineers Ford Smart Mobility Brown and Caldwell Google Comcast Cahill Contractors Haas School of Business, University Comerica Gensler of California, Berkeley Deloitte Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Dignity Health Company LinkedIn Facebook HNTB Corporation Lyft FivePoint HOK Microsoft Forest City Realty Trust Jacobs Postmates Genentech Kimley-Horn Salesforce Gensler Pankow Builders Stripe Google Perkins + Will Twitter Gould Evans Plant Construction Company Uber HOK San Jose Water Company WeWork Jacobs Santa Clara Valley Transportation Zendesk Jordan Real Estate Investments Authority Zoox Kaiser Permanente Siemens The Kapor Center for Social Impact SOM Business Members & Donors Kilroy Realty Corporation 11 West Partners Lendlease Swinerton AECOM LinkedIn Turner Construction Company Airbnb Lowney Architecture Webcor Builders Alaska Airlines Metropolitan Transportation WSP Arup Commission (MTC) XL Construction Autodesk Microsoft Bank of America Netflix Boston Properties One Vassar LLC

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Pacific Gas and Electric Adobe Systems Company (PG&E) Bank of the West Pankow Bay Area Rapid Transit Don Falk Perkins+Will (BART) BCCI Construction Plant Construction Tenderloin Neighborhood Company, L.P. Bloomberg Development Corporation Cahill Contractors Prado Group San Francisco Board, SPUR Carmel Partners Presidio Trust The Core Companies What one thing best represents your neighborhood? Recology Cox Castle & Nicholson, LLP The Tenderloin has perhaps the world’s largest collection of Riaz David Baker Architects Salesforce Emerald Fund housing to people who are the heart and soul of San San Francisco Giants Ford Smart Mobility Francisco. This preservation arises out of the political activism of residents. They reflect the Tenderloin’s long history of San Francisco International Garden City Construction tolerance and its role as a point of entry for immigrants and a Airport Hanson Bridgett LLP home for people society has marginalized. San Francisco Municipal Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company Transportation Agency What’s your favorite way to get to know a new city? San Jose State University Riding public transportation, which goes hand in hand with Hines Interests walking. The combination of covering ground, moving, Santa Clara County Social HNTB Corporation observing and interacting with residents is the antithesis of Services Agency JRDV Architects seeing cities through glass. Signature Development Group Kimley-Horn Skidmore, Owings & What civic initiative gives you hope for the future? Merrill LLP San Francisco’s Proposition C to fund homeless services, Lyft combined with the Department of Homelessness and Sobrato Development Nibbi Brothers General Supportive Housing’s Strategic Framework. Ongoing funding Organization Contractors Steinberg Hart Oakland Athletics Oracle Corporation and harms of homelessness. The Swig Company Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Tishman Speyer What is the most important thing we should teach the civic Port of Oakland Turner Construction Company leaders of tomorrow? Port of San Francisco That the true nature of leadership lies in disarming our hearts, Wells Fargo Postmates embracing vulnerability and taking risks while being scared — Yerba Buena Community ROMA Design Group that is, demonstrating courage. Benefit District San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

25 BOARD PROFILE Shorenstein Properties LLC CIM Group, Downtown Oakland Siemens CMG Landscape Architecture Colliers International, Oakland Sutter Health/CPMC Crescent Heights Elñora T. Webb, Ph.D. Swinerton Builders DIALOG TMG Partners Dropbox Signature Solutions, Corporate Results Eastdil Secured TPG Capital, L.P. Oakland Board, SPUR EHDD Architecture Twitter Environmental Science Associates Uber Technologies Equity Community Builders Veritas Investments Equity Residential What one thing best represents your neighborhood? Farella Braun + Martel LLP Webcor Lake Merritt, the tidal lagoon that welcomes residents and Fehr & Peers visitors from throughout the United States and beyond. It’s Wendel Rosen Black & Field Construction known as a safe haven for wildlife, and the park around the Dean LLP Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco lake houses an amusement park, an interpretive center, a Westfield San Francisco Centre Flynn Investments Fort Mason Center boating center and special locations for meeting, dining and Wilson Meany L.P. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP socializing. WSP Golden Gate National Parks Zendesk Conservancy What SPUR initiative are you most passionate about? Golden State Warriors Developing policies to ensure everyone is housed and Greenbelt Alliance Grosvenor Americas remarkable redevelopment plans so that future generations 706 Mission Street Co., LLC HKS Architects experience many centers of excellence throughout Oakland AC Transit Holland & Knight LLP ADCO Group and are proud to be Oakland residents. Hopkins & Carley Aedis Architects Immobiliare Management LLC

AGI Avant J. Abrams Law, P.C. What civic project or initiative gives you hope for the AlfaTech Jamestown, L.P. future? Arent Fox LLP Jones Lang LaSalle The CASA Compact is an important initial step toward AvalonBay Communities Jurika, Mills & Keifer Private housing the Bay Area. Balfour Beatty Investment Advisors Bank of America, San Jose Lane Partners, LLC What is the most important thing we should teach the civic Bentall Kennedy Levi Strauss & Co. leaders of tomorrow? BKF Engineers Lime How to structure and sustain a great society that honors brick Maximus Real Estate Partners MBH Architects all people and provides a basic level of support — housing, Brisbane Baylands Brown and Caldwell Mercy Housing education and income — to all people while embedding BUILD Meridian Management Group altruistic (societal) responsibilities as a precondition. Build Group Mill Creek Residential Burke, Williams and Sorensen, LLP Mithun | Solomon California Earthquake Authority MJM Management Group Caltrain Municipal Executives Association Carollo Engineers New Deal Advisers Charles Salter Associates Nishkian Menninger

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Acquity Realty County of San Francisco Allen Matkins LLP Old Republic Title Company, San A.R. Sanchez-Corea & Associates Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Pacific Union Development Company Jean-Marie White Bayview Development Group Page Southerland Page Director of Engineering Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Blackstone Charitable Foundation Netflix Perkins Coie LLP The Boldt Company San Jose Board, SPUR Prologis Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority Public Financial Management Carpenters Union Local 22 Carpenters Union Local 405 Ramboll Carpenters Union Local 713 Related California Cathedral Hill What one thing best represents your neighborhood? Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP CCI General Contractor Naglee Park has a lively community that organizes activities RiverRock CIM Group, Jack London Square year-round, including artist open studios, a Fourth of July San Francisco County Transportation Properties Authority City of Milpitas parade and potluck, historical home tours and socials at the San Francisco Department of Human City of Mountain View San Jose Women’s Club. The sense of community is unique. Resources City of San Jose Department of Environmental Services San Francisco Human Services City of San Jose Department of Housing What’s your favorite way to get to know a new city? Agency City of San Jose Department of Parks, Walking. One day in Tokyo, we walked 16 miles. We got to see Recreation and Neighborhood Services houses, buildings and restaurants beyond the tourist spots & Tax Collector City of San Jose Department of Public San Francisco Parks Alliance Works and got a small sense of how people live. San Francisco State University City of San Jose Department of Transportation San Francisco Travel If you could magically pass one state or local law, what

San Jose Water Company Development would it be? Santa Clara Valley Transportation City of San Jose Public Library An acute shortage of housing has dramatically skewed the Authority (VTA) demographics of the Bay Area and continues to cause severe SCB Cody Anderson Wasney Architects financial harm to our local economy. I would pass a law that Scoop Technologies Cornerstone Earth Group would streamline the ability for developers to build high- Seifel Consulting Cruise Automation DAL Properties LLC Sierra Maestra Properties density housing along transit corridors. Deutsche Asset Management SITELAB urban studio Devcon Construction SKS Partners Donahue Fitzgerald LLP What civic project or initiative gives you hope for Steelcase East Bay Asian Local Development the future? SummerHill Housing Group Corporation Economic & Planning Systems SWENSON Ellis Partners LLC Area is critical in setting a vision for how to align TEF Design First Community Housing Tipping Structural Engineers Forell/Elsesser Engineers and housing. TransitCenter Friend Family Foundation UBS Financial Services Group I UCSF Gruen Gruen + Associates Guzman Construction Group Urban Planning Partners Handel Architects, LLP VIA Architecture HASSELL XL Construction Hastings College of the Law Hatch

27 BOARD PROFILE Heller Manus Architects Rockridge Geotechnical Hensel Phelps Construction Co. ROEM Development Corporation HGA Architects & Engineers Samuel Merritt University HMH Engineers Sand Hill Property Company Hunter Properties San Francisco Firefighters Local 798 Lewis Knight Hyatt Regency San Francisco San Francisco Housing Authority Forward Development Manager Jewish Senior Living Group San Francisco Public Works The John Stewart Company San Francisco Recreation and Parks Facebook Jones Hall Department Oakland Board, SPUR Juniper Networks San Francisco Waterfront Partners KBM-Hogue Santa Clara & San Benito Counties Keyser Marston Associates Building & Construction Trades Council (SCBTC) Kittelson & Associates Santa Clara County Fairgrounds What’s your favorite way to get to know a new city? KPFF Consulting Engineers Santa Clara County Residents for Laborers-Employers Cooperation and I have a four-step plan: Stay long, walk far, listen hard and Responsible Development Education Trust Southwest (LECET) Sares Regis Group of Northern California draw often. Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects The Schoennauer Company McCarthy Building Companies SERA Architects Metrovation What SPUR initiative are you most passionate about? Shartsis Friese LLP Meyer Capital Partners LLC SPUR’s Regional Strategy. The Bay Area has always been a SHN Mineta San Jose International Airport Silicon Valley Bank place of invention and hopeful vision, and we must continue Motivate SmithGroup those traits as part of our collective DNA. Mott MacDonald srmERNST Development Partners Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Stanford University Parking & Northern California District Council of Transportation Services What civic project or initiative gives you hope for the Laborers STUDIOS Architecture future? Novin Development Studio T Square Working with SPUR and others to focus on housing across NRG Energy Center Studio VARA NV5 the income spectrum rather than seeing it as a zero-sum SWCA Oakland Department of Transportation TCA Architects game. Everyone in our community benefits from producing, Oakland Planning Department Terracommercial Real Estate Co. Ogden Contract Interiors The TomKat Charitable Trust OJK Architecture + Planning workforce and market-rate housing. Trammell Crow Residential Palantir Trumark Urban Panoramic Interests Union Bank What is the most important thing we should teach the civic Paul Hastings The Unity Council leaders of tomorrow? Peacock Construction University of San Francisco Petrinovich Pugh & Co LLP To be unafraid of experimentation and seek solutions to Uptown/Downtown Community Benefit Pfau Long Architecture, Ltd. District vexing problems. PGA Design UrbanBloc Pinger Urban Community Platinum Advisors, LLC Valley Oak Partners, LLC Polaris Pacific Walker Warner Architects Pound Management Wallace Roberts & Todd Power Engineering Co. Weinstein Local Presidio Bank Westlake Urban, LLC Project Management Advisors Woods Bagot Architects Pyatok Architects WRNS Studio LLP RAD Urban LLC Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Reed Smith LLP Zoox Republic Urban Properties LLC RMW Architecture & Interiors

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Alameda Health System Foundation Gehl Architects Align Real Estate Gelfand Partners Architects Allana Buick & Bers Genfare Anderson Brulé Architects Guerdon Modular Buildings Anvil Builders Hargreaves Associates Jaye Bailey AP+I Design Harsch Investment Properties ARC Alternative + Renewable Construction LLC Hausrath Economics Group Vice President for Organizational Architectural Resources Group Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP Development and Strategic Initiatives Arcsine Hawley Peterson Snyder San Jose State University Armanino LLP Hearst Corporation Arnold & Porter LLP Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel Chair, San Jose Board, SPUR Arquitectonica Housing Trust Silicon Valley Artik Art & Architecture Hudson Pacific Properties ASLA, Northern California Chapter Hugh Groman Catering Backstrom McCarley Berry & Co., LLC ICA Fund Good Jobs What one thing best represents your neighborhood? Baker Street Associates ima Design Baran Studio Architecture Integral Group In Japantown, people are always out and about on the Barrett Block Partners, LP Jack London Improvement District streets. There are special events, favorite restaurants and a Battalion One Fire Protection Jay Paul Company Bay Area LISC Jobs and Housing Coalition very active Buddhist church. Bay.org JPMorgan Chase BCV Architects Kava Massih Architects What SPUR initiative are you most passionate about? Biggs Cardosa Associates Structural Engineers Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Bird Rides Kilroy Realty Corporation, 303 Second Street If I had to pick one, I’d say transportation. Working at a Blach Construction Company Kitchell CEM large public university has really added to my sense that Bohlin Cywinski Jackson KTGY Group Borelli Investment Company Larkin Street Youth Services BPM LLP Lungomare absolutely key to an inclusive, robust urban center. Branagh Lydia and Doug Shorenstein Foundation Bridge Bank MacKenzie Communications Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP Mark Cavagnero Associates What civic project or initiative gives you hope for the Broadway Management Company The Martin Group future? Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design McCarthy Ranch Cambridge Systematics McGrath Properties The redevelopment of Diridon Station and the area around it CCS Architecture MCM Diversified will be transformational. SPUR’s work on this initiative will be Center for Elders’ Independence Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District CHS Consulting Group Mineta Transportation Institute invaluable to the smart growth of the city. City of Fremont Mission Housing Development Corporation Coalition for Better Housing MNS Engineers Cubic Transportation Systems Morgan Stanley What is the most important thing we should teach the civic Cupertino Electric Moscone Emblidge & Otis leaders of tomorrow? Cushman & Wakefield, San Francisco Mott MacDonald We have 35,000 young people at San Jose State University. Daniller Consulting MSA architecture + design DCI Engineers Murphy Burr Curry They are the future leaders! The most important concept Degenkolb Engineers NBBJ we can ask them to embrace is that smart, informed, civil DesignLink Newmark Cornish & Carey D. N. & E. Walter & Co. Northern California Community Loan Fund discourse on any topic leads to solutions. Great leaders listen D. R. Young Associates NorthMarq Capital and learn and then fearlessly advocate for their position. Eaze OAC There is room — and great strength — in our democracy for Ebsco Industries Oakland Department of Economic & Workforce Eden Housing Development Envelope Architecture & Design Oakland Museum of California course, show up! Essel Environmental Consulting Fergus Garber Young Architects Okamoto Saijo Architecture Fidelity National Title Oryx Partners, LLC Fougeron Architecture Page & Turnbull G2 Insurance Services Pelosi Law Group GCI General Contractors PIER 39

29 BOARD PROFILE Populous In-Kind Principal Builders Rahm Investments Donors RELM Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey Adobe Systems Manan Shah Ruth and Going Principal Rutherford + Chekene AECOM Saint Francis Foundation Gensler Salas O’Brien Alaska Airlines Oakland Board, SPUR San Francisco Building & Construction Trades Council Arcadis San Francisco Electrical Construction ARC Document Solutions Industry San Francisco Electrical Construction Arup Industry Local 6 What is one thing that best represents your neighborhood? San Francisco Health Plan Bi-Rite Family of Businesses I live in Oakland, and I love Lake Temescal. It’s a beautiful San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO San Francisco Zoological Society Civic Makers outdoor park, a great place for families, and it’s nestled right San Jose Earthquakes Clear Channel Outdoor in the middle of a bustling neighborhood. San Pedro Square Market Santa Clara County Association of Thang Do REALTORS What’s your favorite way to get to know a new city? Santa Clara Valley Open Space FIRST 5 Santa Clara County Authority Gensler I just follow my wife around. She’s a travel aficionado. At SB Architects times, we’ve been lucky enough to find a way to work with SFMade Google local craftspeople to make something — cuisine, art or jewelry Sherwood Design Engineers Simeon Properties Virginia Hamilton — that’s unique to a place. Simpson Gumpertz & Heger LK Planning SoFA Market SSL Law Firm Microsoft What SPUR initiative are you most passionate about? Studio BANAA I think the Regional Strategy is critical. The Bay Area is Studio Current Moscone Center Studio Gang Architects Studio Till Sergio Ruiz Technology Credit Union Jim Salata Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) Salesforce If you could magically pass one state or local law, what TMC Financing San Francisco Business Times would it be? Troon Pacific UA Local 393 Santa Clara County Public Health I would reform CEQA to better achieve its original goal of Urban Economics Department environmental protections. Currently it’s a legal tool being Urban Pacific Development LLC Urban Real Estate Equities Santa Clara County Social Services used by those wanting to stop development. Ultimately it’s Valerio Dewalt Train Associates a major reason why developing in California is unnecessarily Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP Agency expensive and challenging. The Vanmark Group Second Harvest Food Banks of WP Investments Zipcar Santa Clara and San Mateo What is the most important thing we should teach the civic Counties leaders of tomorrow? Silicon Valley Business Journal Be bold and provide vision. You can’t make everyone happy, UBS and your re-election isn’t the most important issue. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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