“Planning Positivity” for the Holidays
By Della Acosta, AICP, October 14, 2020. Share your #PlanningPositivity photos, memes, videos, news, and stories using the hashtag.
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The West’s wildfires collide with its housing crisis
By Laura Bliss, Bloomberg CityLab, Sept. 18, 2020. Oregon was short 155,000 homes before fires destroyed thousands more, including one county’s most affordable.
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Orange Day photos
By Brendan Hurley. The Bay Bridge seen from the Embarcadero on April 14 and September 9, 2020.
‘Monster in the Mission’ site slated for affordable housing
By Jared Brey, September 11, 2020. A group has agreed to buy the site and donate the land to the city for affordable housing to fulfill the affordability requirements of a separate project of nearly 1,000 units.
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Director’s note: Planning in a State of Change
By Jonathan Schuppert, AICP, September 17, 2020. We continually adapt to environmental, societal, economic, and other changes. But adaptation doesn’t come easily and it doesn’t happen by promoting the status quo.
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SFCTA, looking to congestion pricing, wants input
By Carly Graf, SF Examiner. A study recommendation is to be presented to the SFCTA board by next year. Implementation would take two years.
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Share your best 2020 experiences during our annual holiday celebration
Celebrate the best of 2020 with a single hashtag. Submit 2020’s positive, wholesome, amazing, or good planning-related events, experiences, projects, or ideas.
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Call for nominations: Election of Northern Section leaders
Beginning Nov. 2nd, you will be electing a new Director-Elect and Administrative Director. But first, we need nominations (due by October 16).
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Centering planning in the federal Surface Transportation debate
By Jason Jordan, September 3, 2020. The next federal transportation bill is poised to take a planning-led approach to issues ranging from climate change and resilience to new mobility and social equity. Congress needs to hear directly from planners and other community leaders about the importance of acting now.
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In memoriam, Judith Innes, UC Berkeley planning theorist
From CED Berkeley News. From the early 1980s, Professor Innes was an authority on collaborative approaches to urban planning and decision-making, and was twice director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley.
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