Event
April 2017 LAI Luncheon
San Francisco is the largest developer in northern CA with a capital plan of $42 billion for the foreseeable future. Join us as we hear from Dan Sider from the San Francisco Planning Department, Charles Higueras from the San Francisco Department of Public Works, and Brian Strong of the City & County of San Francisco, as they discuss the re-imagining of much of the civic realm in San Francisco.
The scope of projects is wide in range and scale, but they all look to a sustainable and resilient future. These projects include transit and infrastructural investments such as re-imagining Market Street, digging a new central subway line, creating a bus rapid transit system along the Van Ness corridor that connects the waterfront to the Civic Center, new Public Safety and City Administration buildings, a transformed Moscone Center, and improved parks and streets.
S P E A K E R B I O G R A P H I E S
DAN SIDER
Dan's career in San Francisco has spanned more than 15 years, serving four Planning Directors and three Mayoral administrations. In his current role as the Planning Department's Senior Advisor for Special Projects, he facilitates complex development projects and related land use policy, advises the Director of Planning and works closely with the offices of the Mayor and members of the Board of Supervisors along with other City agencies to improve San Francisco's built environment. Dan is a native San Franciscan who holds degrees from UC San Diego and Harvard University. He lives just outside the fog-belt with his wife and two children in Cole Valley.
CHARLES HIGUERAS
Charles Higueras, FAIA, is the San Francisco Public Works program manager responsible for the City of San Francisco's Justice Facilities Improvement Program (JFIP), a $1.4 Billion program to build new justice and public safety facilities and to replace the aged Hall of Justice. The program is scheduled to evolve over a 15-20 year period and among the first major projects completed was a new Police Headquarters in Mission Bay, part of a $412M bond measure passed in the June 2010 ballot. A second $400M bond measure was passed in June 2014 to accomplish additional major capital projects, including a new Medical Examiner facility, police Crime Lab, and Fire Boats' Station headquarters. Future related bond measures for justice and public safety projects are slated for 2020 and 2026.
Up until joining the City in 2008, Charles was in private architecture practice, 24 years spent working in San Francisco.
Charles has had a continuous commitment to both industry and civic involvement. Among his involvements, he has served on the State of California Architect's Advisory Board, was president of the board of directors of the local Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2004; served the City of San Francisco as a library commissioner from 1996 to 2008; was a board member for 8 years of the national library advocate, the Urban Libraries Council; is a past chair the board of directors of the St. Mary's Medical Center Foundation in San Francisco, and as well past board chair of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. He is currently a board member of the S.H. Cowell Foundation.
Charles resides in San Francisco with his wife, and is a proud alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley.
BRIAN STRONG
As the Director of the San Francisco's Capital Planning Program, Brian Strong is responsible for the City's $32 billion 10-year Capital Plan and its $450 million capital budget. Brian created the City's first multi-year capital plan in 2006 and has been instrumental in the development and passage of $2 billion in General Obligation bonds specifically addressing earthquake safety and resiliency. Brian has also implemented a number of innovative resiliency programs to protect San Francisco's infrastructure, including the Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response bond program, the nations first Sea Level Rise Guidelines, and the first building-by-building HAZUS assessments to evaluate facility performance, economic impacts, casualties, and other risks associated with earthquakes. Brian currently chairs the Sea Wall Finance Working Group to identify funding to seismically strengthen the Great Sea Wall that runs from Aquatic Park to the AT&T Park.
Under Brian's leadership, the Capital Planning Program received the 2011 Good Government Team Award from the Mayor's Fiscal Advisory Committee and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. He also serves as President of the Board for the San Francisco Community Investment Fund that distributes new market tax credits to disadvantaged communities. Brian has a master's degree in intergovernmental management from USC and a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College.
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LocationOne Market Restaurant (View)
1 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States
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