Meet a local planner: Zachary Dahl, AICP
Dhawal Kataria, AICP, interviews a planner who started as a consultant and is now the deputy community development director in a bayside city of 105,000.
What a Planning grad student learned at NPC22
Snow Zhu, UC Berkeley, connected with others in planning and learned a lot, including that a future in housing and economic development holds many opportunities.
Meet a local planner: Naphtali H. Knox, FAICP
Interviewer Catarina Kidd, AICP, uncovers the high and low points in a 52-year career, not including an additional 13 years as editor of Northern News.
Lisbon’s Walkability
Cynthia F. Campbell, a director in HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research, reflects on transit in Lisbon, Portugal, and dinner with the family of a Ukrainian naval officer. April 4, 2022.
Free SPUR events for April and May
SPUR has made the majority of its programming free to the public. Here are excerpts from their events calendar for the balance of April and May 2022.
Creating transportation equity from the ground up
Wednesday, April 27, 10:00 a.m. Participants of the live webinar are eligible for one Equity CM and 1.5 AICP CM credits.
BOOKS: Evolving community engagement toward the hands and senses rather than the loudest voices
Reviewed by Asher Kohn, AICP, April 13, 2022. Equity is taking center stage in community planning. This book challenges current approaches to community engagement and proposes hands-on methods to embolden stakeholders.
How cap-and-trade keeps people in their homes in East Oakland
California’s cap-and-trade program is building up cash while lowering carbon emissions. An April 6 podcast (32 min.) looks at one way that money is being used in East Oakland.
ICYMI: This Fact Sheet can aid localities in implementing SB 9
March 25, 2022. HCD does not have authority to enforce SB 9, but violations of SB 9 may violate other statutes over which HCD does have enforcement authority.
Van Ness BRT is finally running. What does it promise?
By Earl G. Bossard, April 10, 2022. Van Ness can become a world class example of effective, multimodal, environmentally friendly, urban travel in a magnificent place to live, work, or visit.