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Assessing San Jose’s Diridon Station area
SJSU MURP students. Changes coming to the area include California high-speed rail, a new Google campus, and a BART extension through downtown. In partnership with CommUniverCity and the city’s Downtown Association, a class of graduate planning students made a comprehensive assessment of the area. Here’s what they found. Page 1
Director’s note
Sharon Grewal, AICP. It’s transition time on the Northern Section Board • We want YOU to join the Board • Last chance to submit a session proposal for NPC19 • AICP Exam application window is closing • Happy holidays! Page 3
To understand urban planning, CivicSpark Fellows build childhood memories
James Rojas. CivicSpark is a California Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program. Eighteen CivicSpark Fellows assigned to San Francisco Bay Area local government agencies took part in a people-based approach to community engagement training. Here’s what happened. Page 4
My favorite planning project — the Eastshore State Park General Plan
Larry Tong. Despite an unusual postponement, a joint three-agency process produced a long term land use and management plan for Eastshore State Park, the 2,200-acre recreational facility on the east side of San Francisco Bay (in 2002). Page 5
Internal moves on Northern Section Board
Four of our stalwarts change places. Page 6
Planning news roundup
THE FIRES • State’s climate change plan going up in smoke • Wildfires displace low-income residents, change demographics • A tale of two wildfires • Rebuild Paradise? ELSEWHERE • Muni to the Marina? • Minneapolis is doing away with single-family zoning • Guidelines released for streamlined approval of affordable housing projects • For good health, walk in the park • New State Senate bill builds on SB 827 • The Bay Area’s largely unknown underground threat • U.S. Okays modern, European-style train cars. Pages 7 and 18-21
Meet a local planner
Catarina Kidd, AICP, interviews Alexander Quinn of Hatch. Page 8
Call for Proposals, 2019 APA California Conference
Deadline for submitting proposals for the state conference in Santa Barbara is January 31, 2019. Page 11
Where in the world
Photo by Jason Su. Page 11
Who’s where
Della Acosta, Greg Holisko, AICP, Sung H. Kwon, AICP, Peter Pirnejad, Darcy Smith, AICP, Kelly White. Page 12