(The Barcode Project, Oslo, Norway, Aug 2018. Photo by Woodie Tescher.) Five from Northern Section win 2022 Chapter Awards • SIX locally-authored feature articles • TWO upcoming CM webinars • 12 “Who’s where” profiles • 18 from Northern pass AICP exam • 16 articles excerpted in “Planning news roundup,” from Napa Valley to Daly City to Salinas • Four “Where in the world” photos.
By Adhiti Bandlamundi, KQED, August 18 2022. Oakland’s Kingdom Builders Project and nonprofit Local Initiatives Support Corporation are working with some East Bay churches to help them begin their development journeys.
By Marianne Favro, NBC Bay Area, August 15, 2022. Flooding on a scale unseen for over a century would severely harm underserved communities and devastate critical infrastructure.
By Dave Lee, Financial Times, August 9, 2022. Local wineries are turning to private firefighters and nonprofit organizations like Napa Firewise need to fill gaps left by an overwhelmed Cal Fire.
By Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 2022. In the Bay Area, some of the highest rates of clifftop erosion are found in Daly City, Pacifica, and Bodega Bay.
By J.K Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 2022. The review will assess why the city has the state’s longest timeline for advancing housing projects and why it is the subject of the most complaints from the state’s Housing Accountability Unit.
By Hannah Kanif, Mercury News, August 9, 2022. A community group is collecting signatures for a referendum calling for reducing planned growth closer to their RHNA.
By Elizabeth Hull and Michael Ervin, Best Best & Krieger LLP, August 6, 2022. Many local governments interpreted prior law on religious institutions’ parking-to-housing conversions as applying only to existing structures. This bill is a response.
By Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside, August 5, 2022. The joint student-supportive housing plan was hailed as a model for California’s housing crisis, and clearing of the park had begun. But a state appellate court halted the process.
