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Meet a local planner: Dr. Don Bradley
May 2010. Northern Section Director Darcy Kremin, AICP, presents Donald Bradley, AICP, with a surprise Certificate of Excellence for his leadership in conducting Northern Section’s AICP Exam preparation workshops since 1990. His distinguished career spans more than 60 years and has taken him around the world on large-scale and complex planning projects. Interview by Catarina Kidd, AICP.
States buying hotels for short- and long-term housing for wildfire survivors
By Julie Strupp, July 27, 2021. Oregon and California are renting and purchasing hotels to house the homeless — residents…
Why zoning for Middle Housing doesn’t make it so
By David Driskell, with Ian Carlton, Tyler Bump, and Michelle Anderson, August 11, 2021. SB9 and other initiatives propose changes…
“Eliminating” single-family zoning?
By Tom Pace, Community Development Director, Sacramento, July 16, 2021. Sacramento is not eliminating single-family housing; it is increasing housing…
Municipalities pay millions to religious groups wrongly denied zoning approval
By Noel W. Sterett, July 30, 2021. For 20 years, RLUIPA has helped thousands of religious groups overcome zoning barriers….
Northern Section News & Announcements
You are the Ace in the Hole; don’t count on anyone else
Locals win state and national APA Awards
Snapshots of APA ethnicity and gender
Northern Section congratulates our 24 successful May 2021 AICP Examinees
Who’s where
Get on Board!
Northern Section Treasurer Nominations due Sept 30
APA California Conference update
New AICP Credit Maintenance reporting and requirements take effect in January
Housing element information booth, Menlo Park Farmers’ Market
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where in the woRLD? MEMBERS SHARE EXPERIENCES FROM NEAR AND FAR
TOP RIGHT: Lexington, Virginia, W. Nelson St. Photo: Andrew Wilder.
BOTTOM LEFT: Coral Gables, Florida. Photo: Juan Borrelli, AICP.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: Hing Wong, AICP.
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