Julie Flynn

Julie is an urban planner and designer with over a decade of experience spanning public and private-sector roles. Julie originally joined the Street Plans team in 2013. In her initial four years at the firm, she worked on a range of Street Plans projects across the country, building expertise in active transportation planning, public space stewardship, and community engagement. In 2017, Julie took on a position at the City of San Francisco’s Planning Department as the Project Manager for the Civic Center Initiative, leading innovative, large-scale projects to bring new life to the iconic public spaces around the Civic Center. She used near-term projects to prototype concepts from the Civic Center Public Realm Plan, a long-range capital plan. Julie then went on to work at San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, managing a portfolio of planning and recovery projects, leveraging public-private partnerships to catalyze public space activation downtown. After five years in the public sector, Julie was welcomed back to Street Plans in 2023 as a Senior Project Director, bringing with her new perspectives on community planning, public space management, and applied Tactical Urbanism methodologies. Julie has a BA in Urban Studies from Brown University. She is an avid studio artist with a strong appreciation for the role art can play in connecting people to places and to each other.