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Taking the high road to fix California’s broken housing production system

By Alex Lantsberg, AICP, and Roxana Aslan. CALIFORNIA is caught in a pair of traps affecting what kind of housing is built and where, and how it is produced. Together, they reinforce a dynamic of suppressed housing construction, unaffordability, and displacement. Policy makers are understandably focused on making it easier to issue permits for where the multifamily housing in California is needed. They must…

A disruptive housing technology

The story of Mare Island, a Base reuse, and Factory OS By Afshan Hamid, AICP. A HOUSING AND TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTION…

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The Food Zone

Ethics/Law “two-fer” program recap

Planners4Health Co-sponsors Healthy/Resilient Homes Leadership Program

Meet a local planner — John Schwarz

Meet a local planner — Maren Moegel

From arterial roadway to greenway

Director’s note – April 2019

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Too late for ousted residents, Palo Alto denies hotel application

The President Hotel, Palo Alto, one of the taller buildings along University Avenue, opened in 1929….

Housing Action Planning effective in Santa Rosa

Kristen Pope, Planning magazine, March 2019 “Long before Santa Rosa, California, lost 3,000 housing units — five percent of its housing…

Neighborhood-preference program for affordable housing proves effective

Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 2019 “A San Francisco program to protect people in close-knit neighborhoods from being uprooted…

CEQA Review not required for project subject only to Design Review

Michele Chan, California Land Use and Development Report, March 12, 2019 “The court of appeal held that the City of St….

Large apartment project approved near San Leandro BART station

Peter Hegarty, East Bay Times, March 13, 2019 “A 5.73-acre site 1,000 feet from the San Leandro BART station will…

Destruction from sea level rise could exceed state’s worst wildfires and earthquakes

Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2019 • “In the most extensive study to date on sea level rise…

San Jose approves new building heights

Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, March 13, 2019 “San Jose’s squat skyline is set to rise in coming years. The…

Questions about Dumbarton rail project answered

Kate Bradshaw, The Almanac, March 14, 2019 “SamTrans has entered into an exclusive 18-month partnership with Cross Bay Transit Partners…

27-year-old Bay Area mayor is about to double her city’s population

Marisa Kendall, The Mercury News, March 20, 2019 “Brisbane Mayor Madison Davis is 27 and lives at home with her…

Gentrification is most concentrated in large cities

Kate Elizabeth Queram, Route Fifty, March 21, 2019 “Seven cities [including Los Angeles and San Diego] account for almost half…

Link to the APRIL 2019 PDF (37 pp, 12.5 MB)

http://bit.ly/2JzQVhq

Manhattan from West Village, Fay Darmawi — Manhattan, looking north from the West Village. #30 Hudson Yards is the tallest building on the skyline: 1,296 ft. Jane Street runs east-west along the bottom of the photo; 8th Avenue angles off to the right. Photo: Fay Darmawi

Northern News April 2019