Director’s note: Here’s to 2022
Florentina Craciun cogently reports on what your Northern Section Board accomplished in 2021 and hopes to accomplish in 2022.
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Declining school enrollment can worsen traffic
By Dhawal Kataria, AICP, January 19, 2022. Even when student transportation is carefully considered in locating schools, unforeseen changes in land use and demographics can upset the best of plans.
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Making Mill Valley sustainable
By Dennis H. Klein, AICP, December 28, 2021. Strategically placed affordable housing could bring artists and craftspeople back to Mill Valley.
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Northern News February 2022
(Photo: Looking from Oakland to San Francisco, Ronan Furuta via Unsplash) • Two excellent feature articles • Six in “Who’s where” • 12 from our area admitted to AICP • 4 “Where in the world” pics • 12 articles excerpted in “Planning news roundup”
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Webinar: From Complete Streets to Complete Networks
10 am, Feb. 3. Moving beyond complete streets involves conducting a larger review of networks for each travel mode. Attend this free, live webinar for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
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Planning Commissioners Academy in March in San Ramon
By Afshan Hamid, AICP. Network and learn about Senate Bill 9, relationship-building with councils and staff, CEQA, streamlined housing laws, how to prepare findings and conditions of approval, wildfire planning, and new and pending legislation.
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Who’s where
Congratulations to Tom Ford, Sarah Bernstein Jones, Sofia Mangalam, Lakshmi Rajagopalan, and Melissa Ruhl. Assembled by Hazel (Haeseo) Choi, associate editor.
Cultivating community in San José’s SoFA pocket park
In this December 10, 2021, article in our continuing series by Master’s in Urban Planning students at San José State University, a community considers how an abandoned lot can be repurposed as a pocket park, especially for persons often overlooked in the usual placemaking efforts.
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An easier path to AICP Certification
By Afshan Hamid, AICP, Professional Development Director, Northern Section. APA is rolling out a simplified process. Watch for an announcement.
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HCD awards $158M in infrastructure grants to support new affordable homes
By Alex Traverso, HCD, December 2, 2021. Four northern California cities received funds.
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