By Alan Murphy and Angela Luh, September 20, 2021. The opinion in California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund v. City of San Mateo reinforces and upholds significant limitations imposed by the Housing Accountability Act on local consideration of housing development applications.
Calif. court upholds limiting local governments’ ability to deny housing developments Read More »
By Alan Hoffman, September 19, 2021. ReX is a smart, ambitious, transit network for the Bay Area, but the principles that guided its development apply to any region seeking a seamless, integrated system for getting around easily and quickly.
Ten principles for regional transit planning Read More »
By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City, August 24, 2021. “The Oakland People’s Plan” is a response to the city’s RFP for an outside consulting group to lead the General Plan update process. The collective doesn’t want the community engagement lead; it wants the prime consulting contract for the general plan update.
Comprehensive Planning sucks. These Oaklanders want to make it better. Read More »
A Florida transplant is helping to improve Bay Area transit system performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Interview by Catarina Kidd, AICP.
Meet a local planner: Jennifer Fierman, AICP Read More »
By Sarah Allen, AICP. It was just a happy-hour gathering at Arthur Mac’s in Oakland, but it was clear that planners were ready to socialize once again.
First East Bay RAC in-person event since Covid Read More »
AICP CM credits approved for all six programs, free online to APA members. Register at www.spur.org, use APAFALL at checkout.
APA/SPUR Series, Oct and Nov, free to APA members Read More »
By Joshua Abrams, September 21, 2021. Thanks to funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, cities and counties now have free access to an Accessory Dwelling Unit calculator originally designed for San Mateo County.
Get your Accessory Dwelling Unit calculator, free Read More »
By Krystle Heaney, AICP, September 23, 2021. In the “cookbook,” the “recipes” are for projects. Easy as pie, a recipe can be “prepared” when the City has the right “ingredients.”
Crescent City’s ‘Economic Cookbook’ Read More »
IN THIS ISSUE • 4 excellent, locally authored articles and one from Next City about Oakland • 3 important announcements under Northern Section, plus 2 articles from Board members, 2 from HUD, and “Who’s where” (11) • 16 excerpts in “Planning news roundup” • and 4 photos in “Where in the world.”
Northern News October 2021 Read More »
