Urban Ecology’s current projects support our mission of creating vibrant neighborhoods, healthy cities, and thriving regions.
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...
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...
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...
ENTRIPS Community Task Force Meeting – Existing Conditions
We recently gathered the ENTRIPS Community Task Force together again in the bright and sunny Pavilion Building at Mission Bay. This volunteer group of community leaders had a first briefing on SFMTA’s draft ENTRIPS Existing Conditions report. The city team was able to...
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...
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...
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...
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...