Allied organizations: Upcoming events and programs
Northern Section’s allied professional organizations offer events and programs in a variety of formats that you may find align well with your professional and continuing education goals.
YEP Group returns to support young and emerging planners
Join YEP and start building your professional network today. Northern Section’s Young and Emerging Planners Group (YEP) kicks off 2023 with renewed efforts to provide emerging professionals and students in planning-related fields opportunities to engage with other professionals in the Northern California region.
Northern Section January 2023 Board Retreat Report
The Northern Section Board’s January 2023 retreat balanced collaborative working sessions with team-building activities to focus strategic priorities and work programs on a year of action and engagement.
Northern News author interview opportunities
Northern News is expanding its partnership with Island Press books to include author interviews, and the Northern News team is looking for aspiring Northern Section member volunteers to lead interviews with authors.
Who’s Where
Keep friends updated and follow colleagues as they ascend the career ladder in one of our most read sections. Share your next move with us!
There’s more than one way to define context
Author Emily Marthinsen encourages people to see and to appreciate the significance, and the beauty, of Wurster Hall, now Bauer Wurster Hall, through its “context of ideas.”
If Downtown SF Is Dead, Why Is Traffic So Bad?
By Maryann Thompson, The San Francisco Standard, March 2, 2023 “There’s no doubt San Francisco is having one of the worst pandemic recoveries of any major U.S. city—even the mayor thinks Downtown SF may never be the same. So with 150,000 fewer workers Downtown, it would be reasonable to assume a drive to the city …
Lawmaker quits Bay Area transit committee, citing BART mismanagement
By Kevin Truong, The San Francisco Standard, February 28, 2023 “A California state Senate committee pushing for more funding for Bay Area Rapid Transit and other regional agencies has lost a member, with East Bay representative Steve Glazer calling it quits in a letter on [February 28th]. “Glazer, whose district spans Alameda and Contra Costa …
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‘We Have a Moment Here’: An Urgent Push for Farmworker Housing in Wake of Half Moon Bay Tragedy
By Tyche Hendricks, KQED, February 24, 2023 “In the month since the January 23rd mass shooting — in which seven workers at a pair of mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay were shot and killed … farmworker housing has been a central concern here. And [Joaquín] Jiménez Ureña [vice mayor of Half Moon Bay] and …