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NORCAL APA NEWS

Sustainable Chinatown wins (Environmental Planning) Gold at NPC19

Director’s note, by James A. Castañeda, AICP

New! Northern Section webinar series

2019 Northern Section Awards Gala June 7

My short course on Working with Difficult People

SF Urban Film Festival news

Storytelling at People of Color mixer

In memoriam, Northern News PDF

PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS FROM NPC19

PLANNING NEWS ROUNDUP

SB 50/SB 4 compromise summary

SB50, combined with SB4, clears Senate Governance and Finance Committee

Street Air on Earth Day

Bay Area Homelessness Report

A highway runs through it

CA cities and counties move to comply with State housing law

SF is world’s most expensive city in which to build, study says

Streetcar spurred development of an SF neighborhood 100 years ago

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