Northern News July-August 2022

By Dorian Hargrove, CBS8, June 22, 2022. Courts cannot overturn the Regional Housing Needs Assessment. Only state lawmakers can change the law.

From Mass Transit Magazine, June 23, 2022. SFMTA says it will engage with the west side community, where support for the bond was lowest, to better understand their transportation needs.

By Emily Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 2022. The deepening drought has wrung moisture out of the vegetation, increasing the risk of a catastrophic wildfire.

By Marisa Kendall, SiliconValley.com, June 15, 2022. A nonprofit is helping religious institutions and large property owners across the East Bay through the planning and permitting process for tiny homes.

By Eli Wolfe, San Jose Spotlight, June 15, 2022. The City Council will consider a detailed policy by the end of the year to incentivize alternative modes of transit and lowers construction costs.

By J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, June 15, 2022. More than a dozen projects are on hold until the sewer is upgraded or the sanitary district’s position changes.

By William Frey, Brookings, June 15, 2022. The bigger suburbs are more racially diverse than is our country as a whole.

By Sarah Holder, Bloomberg CityLab, June 15, 2022. Santa Cruz voters hoping to see the return of passenger rail to the beachside city prevailed in a ballot measure to decide the fate of a recreational trail project.

By Ryan Burns, Lost Coast Outpost, June 10, 2022. The potential for a multi-use rail-to-trail project connecting San Francisco and Humboldt Bay remains, and the appeal of the project’s denial is unlikely.

By Pam Marino, Monterey County Weekly, June 9, 2022. P.G.’s RHNA represents a 13 percent increase in dwelling units. The city of four square miles is using a general plan adopted in 1994.

By Emilie Raguso, Berkeleyside, June 3, 2022. Officials and staff made it clear that, while unanimous approval represented a major milestone, there are still years of work and community input ahead.

By Jessica Wolfrom, San Francisco Examiner, June 2, 2022. A civil grand jury report called for San Francisco to boost cleanup efforts and more accurately predict groundwater impacts from rising tides.

By Joseph Geha, Mercury News, May 26, 2022. The authorization advances a project paused for over a year by a litigious group of residents.

By Nate Berg, Fast Company, May 26, 2022. The tool has been used by Marin County and several cities in the San Francisco Bay Area.