Chloé’s visionary leadership transforms cities into beautiful, inspiring, accessible, and safe places.
SDCBC is a 501(c)(3) organization with a 35-year history of successfully advocating to make San Diego County a better place to ride a bicycle. SDCBC promotes safe cycling through education, advocacy, and community cycling events.
As the Executive Director, Chloé sets the organization’s vision and builds partnerships and internal capacity to reach more of the county’s 3.3 million residents and transform more of the 7,000+ miles of streets and roads into great places to cycle.
Recent Projects
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Walk n Roll San Diego
Through our non-profit, Walk n Roll San Diego, Manny Rodriguez and I are gathering support to remake our streets into safe and inspiring places for all people, whether they walk, bike, roll, or use transit.
In our first year of existence, our advocacy helped spur Caltrans to commit to fill in the missing bike lanes on its Park Blvd. right of way. We collaborated with Circulate San Diego on a Community Walk Audit of El Cajon Blvd. in North Park, worked with San Diego County Bike Coalition on a reel about Roundabouts, and hosted a San Diego Design Week Event.
Watch our reels on TikTok or Instagram and follow us on Twitter - @walknrollsd
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Green the Gap: Reconnecting San Diego Communities
Through my board leadership with San Diego Commons, I facilitated a renaming and rebranding effort for our primary initiative to make it catchy and actionable, calling it - “Green the Gap: Reconnecting San Diego Communities across the I-5 with Freeway Lids” (a bridge-like structure creating new land above the highway to knit the city back together and provide much-needed green space in urban areas).
I also wrote a White Paper exploring the ‘just right’ scope for our work and encouraging the board to consider advocating for freeway lids in any location along the 5 throughout the central part of the city in order to build a broader coalition (rather than pre-selecting specific sites).
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Bay to Park Paseo
The Bay to Park Paseo Project is an all-volunteer project to design, build and fund a unique, engaging 1.7-mile impermanent pedestrian experience connecting the San Diego Bay to Balboa Park and downtown along Park Blvd.
I’m co-creating and presenting the project with Pete Garcia and Beth Callender of the non-profit URBAN INTERVENTIONS.
It has been said that San Diego has two crown jewels, the San Diego Bay and Balboa Park. First suggested by notable urban planner John Nolen to the City of San Diego in 1908, connecting the Bay to the Park has been an unfulfilled dream of many.
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RECOGNITION FOR ADVOCACY
In 2023, I I was honored with the Woman of Impact Award for Activism by California State Assembly 77th District Representative Tasha Boerner.
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Recognized by the Downtown San Diego Partnership with the 2022 Create the Future Award for Economic Prosperity for work at Seaport Village in San Diego, CA while working as part of SLP Urban Planning in collaboration with the Port of San Diego and Protea Properties.
ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
Decorated with Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Overall Achievement Award in Urban Planning for leadership and overall excellence in academic studies in the Master in Urban Planning program.
Podcast Appearances & Talks
National Bike Summit 3/21/24: Best Practices for Teaching On E-Bike Cycling Education
During the 2024 League of American Bicyclists annual gathering in Washington, DC, I hosted a break-out session and provided an overview of E-Bike Culture in San Diego County and E-Bike Legislation in California.
S2 EP1: Walk 'n' Roll San Diego
Manny and I were happy to be interviewed by Daniel Rodriguez of the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition for their podcast, The Weekly Spoke.
S2 EP1: Walkability & Urban Planning
Produced by UCSD’s Design Lab, Whose City? podcast host Larry Herzog spoke with me about Walk n Roll SD and strategies to promote better places for walking, cycling, and other slower forms of everyday urban travel.
Pecha Kucha 11/17/22: San Diego’s Biggest Urban Challenge
I shared my C.I.S.S 😘 Framework (TM) for evaluating and transforming Urban Environments and asked, “How might we enliven San Diego's streets and create a public realm full of surprise and delight?
San Diego Sun Profile
LIVING IN THE CITY: She Loves–And Plans–Urban Life
East Village resident Chloé Lauer defines the downtown San Diego life experience. Not coincidentally, she’s an urban planner.
BY RON DONOHO ● PROFILES
FEBRUARY 11, 2023