Gabriel Metcalf, president and CEO of SPUR, is leaving the nonprofit urban think tank at the end of the year for a job in Australia.
Metcalf said in a letter to SPUR members that he will become CEO for Committee for Sydney, a city planning group in Australia's largest metropolis.
Throughout his years at SPUR, Metcalf was a public advocate for building more housing to create a more equitable Bay Area and for investing in public transit to alleviate the gridlock that increasingly defines life in…