By Jana Kadah, San Jose Spotlight, March 8, 2022. Recommendations addressed three key barriers: construction costs, delays in permitting, and development regulations.
By Kaela Shiigi, Perkins Coie LLP Land Use & Development Law Report, March 7, 2022. Court of Appeal found development project – consistent with a previously approved specific plan – did not need new EIR, as no changes significantly increased specific impacts.
By Curtis Driscoll, San Mateo Daily Journal, March 4, 2022. According to various board members, the contentious governance talks have impaired Caltrain’s ability to recruit staff and reduced staff time for other projects.
Caltrain approves governance reform plan, but member agencies still must adopt it Read More »
By Joseph Geha, East Bay Times, March 3, 2022. The developers are already prepared to propose a project that would meet the minimum affordable housing standards required by the Housing Accountability Act.
Dublin scraps 573-home development over referendum threat Read More »
Partner with Catarina Kidd, AICP, as guest writer for the widely-read “Meet a local planner.”
In search of an interviewer Read More »
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN, March 3, 2022. If the nation’s second largest reservoir passes the emergency drought threshold, it would threaten water supplies and cut hydropower to several states.
Lake Powell is about to drop below a critical level never reached before Read More »
By Benjamin Schneider, San Francisco Examiner, March 3, 2022. The study found that parking and roadways make up 20 percent of land in incorporated areas of the Bay Area.
New research: The ‘hidden toll’ of having more parking spaces than people Read More »
By Romy Varghese, Bloomberg CityLab, March 3, 2022. San Francisco’s downtown recovery is among the slowest nationally, but the state’s property-tax system cushions the city’s finances.
San Francisco businesses confront many office workers never returning Read More »
Mercatus Center scholar Emily Hamilton argues SB9 will have far more impact if local leaders cooperate with the spirit of the law by relaxing some of the rules that make duplexes less attractive to build.
To fix its housing crisis, California must unleash the duplex Read More »
Pew Research Center, March 9, 2022. College graduates are more likely than those with less education to say they now earn more and have more opportunities for advancement, compared with their last job.
