By Bay City News Foundation, Local News Matters, April 29, 2022. The decision was years in the making. Area plans and infrastructure are ready.
Rohnert Park purchases 30-acre property it plans to redevelop into future downtown Read More »
By Nami Sumada, The Chronicle, April 26, 2022. The Chronicle identified the state (other than California) that best matches each California county based on residents’ demographics and voting behavior.
Here’s the U.S. state each Northern Section county is most like Read More »
By Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, April 25, 2022. The rise of remote work has snipped the tether between home and office, allowing many white-collar workers to move out of high-cost cities.
Why Americans are leaving downtowns in droves Read More »
By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2022. A coalition of 67 Bay Area nonprofits and public agencies rolled out a $700 million plan for efforts to preserve biodiversity.
Bay Area hopes for more than 100 new park projects by 2030 Read More »
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.
Infrastructure for Infill Read More »
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.
Urban Planning students measure the civic value of urban open space Read More »
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.
Bay Area transit agencies are (finally) taking collaboration seriously Read More »
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.
Ban on Short-Term Rentals required Coastal Commission approval Read More »
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.
When you have to forget everything you know about Planning Read More »
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.
Meet a local planner: Zachary Dahl, AICP Read More »
