Some of the free SPUR events through June
SPUR has made the majority of its programming free to the public. Here are excerpts from their events calendar for the balance of May and June 2022.
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2022 regional Planning Commissioner trainings
The Institute for Local Government offers planning commissioner training free of charge, exclusively for city and county commissioners, new or experienced.
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If your meeting is really needed, keep it to 25 minutes
By Stephanie Vozza, Fast Company, April 29, 2022. Limit meetings to when you need an active conversation that involves bouncing ideas around, suggests author Donna McGeorge.
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Walkability: Fairfield’s response to post-Covid urban planning
By Casey Case, May 2, 2022. Small-scale improvements and amenities can make a big difference in California’s small- and mid-sized downtowns.
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Infrastructure for Infill
By the California Planning Roundtable, May 2022. As we add housing through infill, we not only need to plan and fund infrastructure to support it, we need to remedy existing deficits in communities where infill growth is directed.
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Urban Planning students measure the civic value of urban open space
The class used guiding principles from the Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative to determine who is using Downtown San José’s Guadalupe River Park, which demographics are underrepresented, how people get to the park, and if and when they feel safe there.
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Bay Area transit agencies are (finally) taking collaboration seriously
By Henry Pan, May 6, 2022. With state funding possibly on the line, 27 agencies across the Bay Area are ironing out new strategies to coordinate fares, wayfinding, and more.
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Ban on Short-Term Rentals required Coastal Commission approval
By Cecily Barclay and Kaela Shiigi, Perkins Coie LLP, May 10, 2022. A property owner petitioned for a writ of mandate to enjoin the City of Manhattan Beach from enforcing its 2015 and 2019 ordinances after the City tried to enforce the ban on his property.
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When you have to forget everything you know about Planning
By Holly Pearson, AICP. In preparing an Urban Development Plan for the Greater Banjul Area, my challenge was how to use chaos, informality, and the lawlessness of The Gambia to work in favor of sustainable outcomes instead of against them.
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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.
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