MON-FS-008: Bike the Blue Greenway: Tour Waterfront Sites and the Urban Trail Network

Monday, November 14, 2022

8:15am – 4:45pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Field Session Departure Area 1, Lobby Level South

4.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW
Ticket Price: $185 per person; includes bike/helmet rentals, transportation, water, and catered lunch. Appropriate for experienced cyclists comfortable in an urban setting.

Field Session Leader(s)

Sarah Moos Thompson, ASLA

Associate Principal
Bionic
Oakland, California
Maya Rodgers

Senior Project Manager, Parks & Place
San Francisco Parks Alliance
San Francisco, California

Field Session Presenter(s)

Nathan Lozier, ASLA, SITES AP

Principal
RHAA
San Francisco, California
David Fletcher, ASLA

Principal
Fletcher Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, California

Take a bicycle-led tour along SF’s Blue Greenway to learn about the multi-agency planning and design effort to implement a visionary urban waterfront trail and open space network. Visit built sites and hear from landscape architects, planners, and agency- and community-members involved in the decades-long process.

Learning Outcomes:

Gain insight into the interagency coordination, collaboration, and partnerships required for realizing an extensive waterfront network planning, design, and development effort.
Learn about the complex economic, environmental, and sociocultural considerations for a city-scale open space planning effort that spans multiple neighborhoods, communities, districts, and ownership.
Learn about the planning, entitlement, design, and construction processes for sites in complex locations with overlapping jurisdictions.
Gain insight into the global forces at play for designing waterfront sites impacted by sea level rise.