The San Francisco Bay Area is nearing the completion of Plan Bay Area, a sustainable communities strategy born of a California law that directs regions to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. Through this plan, communities are promoting compact, mixed-use development that is walkable, bike-friendly, and close to transit, jobs, schools, shopping, and parks. Learn how regional agencies adopted a framework for allocating federal transportation dollars to achieve plan goals.
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Amin Surani
Principal
Santa Clara Valley Trans Auth.
Sailaja Kurella
Regional Planner
Association of Bay Area Govts.
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Bio: Sailaja Kurella is a seasoned urban planner with 8+ years of public sector experience in land use, transportation policy, economic development, community development and climate change policy. She is currently a Regional Planner with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), the San Francisco Bay Area’s regional land use planning agency, where she is working to implement the region’s first Sustainable Communities Strategy -- a long-term plan to promote compact, mixed-use and transit-oriented development. Prior to joining ABAG, Sailaja worked for the New York City Economic Development Corporation helping accelerate community revitalization, job creation, and private investment in neighborhoods throughout the Bronx.
Education: Columbia University-Master of Science in Urban Planning; University of Illinois, Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
Therese M. Trivedi
Senior Transportation and Land Use Planner
Metropolitan Trans Comm.
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Bio: Therese Trivedi is a senior planner and program manager at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the San Francisco Bay Area. She manages a suite of transportation & land use programs focused on implementing regional goals and objectives to enhance livability in the Bay Area, improve the quality of development patterns & promote alternatives to auto travel.
Education: Bachelor of Arts, Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Master of Public Administration, San Francisco State University
Kevin L. Riley
Director of Planning and Inspection
City of Santa Clara Planning
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Bio: Director of Planning and Inspection for the City of Santa Clara, California since May 2005. Have worked for the City of Santa Clara since beginning as a Planning Intern in 1984 while completing my Masters degree. Have led a number of significant projects over the years for the City, including Intel headquarters building and campus, Kaiser Santa Clara Hopsital and Medical Center, Sun Microsystems/Oracle 1M square foot campus rehab/redevelopment of historcal Agnews State Hospital, Rivermark 200-acre mixed use community and San Francisco 49ers new Santa Clara Stadium.
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science nad Public Administration from the University of the Pacific; Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from San Jose State University
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