Free SPUR events for March and April
SPUR has made the majority of its programming free to the public. Here is their calendar for the balance of March 2022, and April.
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News
Strategies to promote affordable commercial space in cities
By Patricia Voltolini, Melissa Kim, David M. Greenberg, Julia Duranti-Martinez, and Michelle Harati in Next City, 11 min. When it comes to helping small businesses find and develop commercial space in which they can succeed and thrive, affordability, accessibility, and supporting collaboration are key.
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Recommend a planner for the emeritus network
By Juan Borrelli, AICP. Help us nominate a stellar, seasoned, northern California planner who has made outstanding contributions to the profession, to PEN, the Planner Emeritus Network.
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Northern News April 2022
(Photo: Darband, Tehran, Iran, April 2021. Shila Bagley, AICP) • Four feature articles • Upcoming conference and awards information • Seven in “Who’s where” • Four “Where in the world” photos • 13 articles excerpted in “Planning news roundup”
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New study: Ample possibilities to turn excess school land into teacher housing
By Louis Hansen, Mercury News, February 16, 2022. School districts in every Bay Area county have shown a willingness to develop housing for educators, according to researchers.
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Court orders UC Berkeley enrollment freeze over CEQA suit
By Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square, February 15, 2022. A neighborhood group argued in August 2021 that the university exacerbated the city’s housing crisis through excessive enrollment.
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New report: Coastal sea levels in U.S. to rise a foot by 2050
By Henry Fountain, New York Times, February 15, 2022. The report provides detailed sea level projections for states and territories by decade as an aid to local officials, planners, and engineers.
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San Jose OK’d $45 million in fee waivers for downtown developers — with little housing to show for it
By Maggie Angst, The Mercury News, February 10, 2022. Within the next year, the city council is expected to again weigh whether to extend the program to encourage high-rise developers to move those projects past the goal line.
With bike buses, kid cyclists feel safer together on the road
By Maxwell Adler, Bloomberg CityLab, February 10, 2022. The phenomenon isn’t new. But as cycling took off during the pandemic, new bike bus initiatives have emerged in SF and elsewhere.
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New research: a startling safety gap for crosswalks in some San Francisco neighborhoods
By Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, February 9, 2022. Many cold spots exist in lower-income neighborhoods such as the Excelsior, Visitacion Valley, and Bayview-Hunters Point.
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