San Jose Redevelopment: As a contract staff person for the City’s Redevelopment Agency, Mr. Claiborne was project manager for the initial phase of the Guadalupe River Park. He designed certain elements of the adjacent Almaden Parkway streetscape improvements and directed the design of the North First Streetscape project, which features double rows of poplar trees. He also participated in the design of several of the downtown light rail stations.

I-280 Touchdown Project, San Francisco: Mr. Claiborne was the project manager for the I-280 Touchdown project in San Francisco, which developed six alternatives for redesigning the Embarcadero area of the city’s waterfront. One of the alternatives anticipated what has become the final design for the current reconstruction project.

Fremont, California: Another of Mr. Claiborne's constructed streetscape projects is located in the Irvington District of the City of Fremont, California. It includes street landscaping and frontage improvements for an approximately two and one-half mile commercial street centered on what is also known as “the five corners.” The project features a small park and historic monument as well as a set of award winning gateways.

Alameda County: Mr. Claiborne has designed several streetscape improvement projects that are part of a redevelopment strategy for the economic revitalization of established commercial districts in the urbanized western portion of the County.

The Ashland, Cherryland Business District (ACBD) Specific Plan features a comprehensive program of streetscape and frontage improvements for the unincorporated portion of East 14th Street, Mission Boulevard. This highway corridor (SR 184) is an old, strip commercial highway once tagged “the ugliest street in the East Bay.” The first phase of improvements have been constructed.

In the Central Business District of the unincorporated community of Castro Valley, Mr. Claiborne directed design of streetscape improvements for Wilbeam Avenue, a residential street connecting the new BART Station to a major retail mall on Castro Valley Boulevard, the City’s “main street.”

Most recently, Mr. Claiborne assisted county staff in establishing a scenic corridor designation and protection plan for the Niles Canyon area of SR 84 through the unincorporated community of Sunol. The corridor resources include Alameda Creek ecosystem and historic infrastructure improvements associated with the Hetch Hetchy Water Aquaduct and the transcontinental railroad.