Artists and community beautify San Jose Neighborhoods. By Tina Morrill. Art Box Project encourages community pride, reduces graffiti. PAGE 1 John Blayney, FAICP, 1927-2013: An appreciation. Ellen Greenberg, AICP, honors long-time Bay Area planner. PAGE 4 Who’s where: Gitelman, Hefner, Moloney, Sharma, Watson, and Wong. PAGE 5 Letters: W. Paul Farmer, FAICP; Gary Binger. PAGE 7 Where in the world. Mystery skyline […]
Light rail returns to LA’s West Side, By Ellen Gelbard. 15.2-mile “Expo line” will soon serve western LA County. PAGE 1 Bay Area Bike Share. By Jonathan Schuppert, AICP. Bike Share launches with 70 stations and 700 bikes. PAGE 8 Due process. By Stephen A. McEwen, Esq. Recent appellate decisions clarify how local agencies should conduct administrative hearings. PAGE 14
APA’s new Sustainable Community Division’s new sustainability program offers insights and resources for amplifying national, state, and local initiatives. With the election of Bob Kern as Chair of APA’s new Sustainability Community Division, the division is poised for it’s first full program initiative (read it here and excerpted below for convenience). It is illustrative of upcoming directions
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The Northern Section was proud to sponsor and organize a series of four free Planning Commissioner Training Workshops in Spring 2013. The workshops were well attended and taught by experienced professional planners. Planning Commissioners can view the workshop PowerPoint presentations at https://norcalapa.org/programs/planning-commissioners/. We hope to offer another workshop series in 2014.
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Locals assist Vietnam preservation efforts. Stefan Pellegrini, AICP, reports on a two-week workshop to establish policies for lands surrounding Hué’s historic, world heritage monuments. PAGE 1 Meet a local planner. Tania Sheyner, AICP, interviews Kim Jordan, Ukiah senior planner. Fifth in a series. PAGE 6 Plan-it sustainably, by Dave Javid, AICP. The future of livable cities on the Pacific Rim.
Infill and reuse enliven Oakland’s Uptown, Matt Taecker, AICP. PAGE 1 When CEQA and Initiatives collide, planners need to be prepared, Matthew Visick and Alexandra Barnhill. Proactively analyze environmental impact when a land use measure is proposed for the ballot. PAGE 9 Northern Section’s 2014 international planning tour, Alex Hinds and Hing Wong, AICP. Russia, Estonia,
Tweet, like, post. How APA California – Northern Section is using social media, by Erik S. Balsley, AICP. PAGE 1 Shared equity homeownership. San Francisco’s Below Market program preserves future affordability. Condensed from HUD USER, Fall 2012. PAGE 8 Chicago conference reminiscences, by Naphtali H. Knox, FAICP. PAGE 9 Creating better streets. The nonprofit re:Streets is online with
Making the connection between advancing sustainability planning, APA State Chapters, and the new APA Sustainable Community Division was the topic of one of the Division’s by-right sessions at the National APA Conference in Chicago (April 2013), the Mobilizing Sustainability Facilitated Discussion (Sunday, 3pm). Mobilizing an effective response to the sustainability threat, with climate change being the
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Join ex Planning Technology Division President and Professor Jennifer Evans-Cowley @EvansCowley) (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration, Professor of City and Regional Planning, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University) in a new on-line course–TechniCity (click the link, review the class, register)–on smart cities and associated technology to be held in May. Learn not only
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The Net Zero California Symposium held today was engaging and productive. See this post for my summary, slides, and access to resources. My announcement of the symposium is here. This post and the following links provide some additional detail. I also talked to a developer who is doing the first Passive House net positive energy+transportation infill project in the world(?) in SF.
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