Urban Ecology’s current projects support our mission of creating vibrant neighborhoods, healthy cities, and thriving regions.
East Bay Greenway
The East Bay Greenway Concept Plan details a bicycle and pedestrian pathway that extends from Oakland to Hayward underneath the elevated BART tracks. This twelve mile long greenway runs through some of the poorest neighborhoods in the East Bay, neighborhoods without...Briefing on the SFCTA’s Strategic Analysis Report “The role of shuttle service in San Francisco’s transportation system”
The SFCTA has released a draft Strategic Analysis Report about employer owned shuttle services in San Francisco. There are two types of shuttles being used in San Francisco – large shuttles (“Regional employer shuttles”) that transport San Francisco residents to the...
Local Transportation Improvements Infographic
...ENTRIPS Community Task Force Meeting
Last month the ENTRIPS Community Task Force held another meeting with the city’s mutli-agency team and technical consultant, facilitated by Urban Ecology. This Task Force is comprised of an array of community leaders who are volunteering their time to review and guide...
Community Task Force Scoping Meeting
On Tuesday night, Urban Ecology hosted an EN TRIPS Community Task Force meeting in the SOMA. This Task Force will be a key information and communications conduit for organizing community input on the city’s Eastern Neighborhoods Transportation Implementation Planning...
The Future Conditions Report
The ENTRIPS Community Task Force recently met again in early November. Urban Ecology hosted and helped manage the meeting while the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Agency (SFMTA) took on the main facilitation of the agenda. We held the meeting at Recology‘s...
Visitacion Valley Open Space Planning Outreach
Ten Years Ago From 1999 to 2002, Urban Ecology partnered with the Visitacion Valley Planning Alliance in conjunction with Board of Supervisors Sophie Maxwell’s Office and EDAW to develop a community based concept plan for the unused Schlage Lock site in...
EN Area Plan Improvement Maps
In the back of each of the Eastern Neighborhood Area Plans, are some maps that depict the big picture improvements that are described within the plans. We have uploaded these maps to our Documents Page to make them more accessible to you. These maps, and the...
The Project Evaluation Framework
The ENTRIPS Community Task Force met again this week with representatives from SFMTA. We met in the South Beach Harbor Community Room, ate pizza in the sunshine, and listened to the neighboring crowd cheer for the Giants win. In our conversation we discussed the...
Modeling Assumptions
On July 22nd we had a mini EN TRIPS Community Task Force meeting at SFMTA‘s office to specifically discuss the transportation planning computer models they use. Five members of the community task force were able to attend as well as the Transportation Authority’s...