SPUR Forum: The New Ground Floor: Getting the Regs Right
From SPUR:
12:11 AM PDT on July 7, 2014
From SPUR:
12:30 p.m. | Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Photo courtesy of Flickr user La Citta Vita
Planning for an active ground floor that supports the public realm is tricky business. Parking needs to be balanced, dead spaces kept at bay, and adequate room given to allow experimentation without becoming overly prescriptive. Join a discussion about the state of practice at street level and learn how San Francisco’s new ground floor codes have created new cultures and constituencies around street life.
+ Tom Radulovich / Livable City
+ Michael Yarne / Build Inc.
+ David Baker / David Baker Architects
ADMISSION:
Free to members
$10 non-members
Okay to bring lunch
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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