Northern News – November 2018

You can download this month’s issue as a PDF, read it online as a virtual magazine, or review the contents below and click directly to articles.

 

Can “inclusionary industrial” zoning save manufacturing space in San Francisco?

Emily Nonko. An initiative to build affordable commercial space in San Francisco borrows from the affordable housing playbook. Page 1

Director’s note

Sharon Grewal, AICP. October is National Community Planning Month | A little about the 2018 California Chapter Conference in San Diego | California Chapter election results | Mentorship program | Holiday party. Read the Director’s note here.

APA scholarship winners announced for 2018

UC Berkeley’s Lily MacIver and Diego Rentería are among two of seven planning students in the US to be awarded APA’s Judith McManus Price Scholarship. Page 5

SB 2 Planning Grants Draft Guidelines released

You can learn more about the funding and guidelines at HCD’s Open House Forum in San Mateo October 23. Page 5

Where in the world

If you have traveled here, email and let us know. Two photos by H. Pike Oliver. Page 6

Book review

Conflict, Meetings, and Difficult People, by Barry Phegan, PhD. Reviewed by Don Bradley, PhD, AICP. Page 7

Planning news roundup

Climate change threatens Santa Cruz | New ferry terminal brings SF homebuyers to Richmond [photo] | SF easing rules for ADUs | Housing was an issue in the gubernatorial debate | Is a win for downtown a loss for the neighborhoods? | Shenzhen’s super supra highway for trees [photo] | Google Maps can calculate a city’s carbon footprint | Transit would work better if we rode it more | Neighborhood-level effects of traffic congestion on job access. Pages 8 and 17-19

Meet a local planner

Catarina Kidd, AICP, interviews Berkeley’s Shannon Allen, AICP. Page 9

Who’s where

John Cook, AICP; Ashley James; Margaret Kavanaugh-Lynch; Judith H. Malamut, AICP; Randy Tsuda, AICP; David Woltering, AICP. Page 11

Letters

We love getting letters. Page 13

Livable Communities for All Ages

Results of a global survey of planners. Page 13

Outsmarting disaster

Wally Charles, Bay Area Metro. The planning professional’s role in disaster recovery, Nov. 2 in Oakland. Page 14

Scroll to Top