By Dan Marks, AICP, October 15, 2020. To meet GHG goals, we need to fund land use planning, designate more land for housing, foster land assembly, and facilitate infill.
Plan Bay Area: What has it accomplished; what needs to be done Read More »
By Jared Brey. The $600 million program, which helps Calif. cities buy hotels to permanently house the homeless, has created new units at a third of the cost of building new.
California’s Project Homekey turns hotels into housing Read More »
By Leila Hakimizadeh, AICP, and John David Beutler, AICP. As the pandemic changes commuting patterns, some residential subdivisions could begin to function more like older neighborhoods in terms of activities and businesses.
Five ways to better neighborhoods post-pandemic Read More »
By Della Acosta, AICP, October 14, 2020. Share your #PlanningPositivity photos, memes, videos, news, and stories using the hashtag.
“Planning Positivity” for the Holidays Read More »
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.
The West’s wildfires collide with its housing crisis Read More »
By Brendan Hurley. The Bay Bridge seen from the Embarcadero on April 14 and September 9, 2020.
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.
‘Monster in the Mission’ site slated for affordable housing Read More »
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.
Director’s note: Planning in a State of Change Read More »
By Carly Graf, SF Examiner. A study recommendation is to be presented to the SFCTA board by next year. Implementation would take two years.
SFCTA, looking to congestion pricing, wants input Read More »
