In search of an interviewer
Partner with Catarina Kidd, AICP, as guest writer for the widely-read “Meet a local planner.”
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News
Lake Powell is about to drop below a critical level never reached before
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.
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New research: The ‘hidden toll’ of having more parking spaces than people
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.
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San Francisco businesses confront many office workers never returning
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.
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To fix its housing crisis, California must unleash the duplex
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.
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Most workers who quit in 2021 felt disrespected; cite low pay, no opportunities to advance
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.
‘Greening’ cities can make gentrification worse – and often doesn’t help the environment either
By Laura Kiesel, Salon, February 26, 2022. Parks and greenways, as well as other green features linked with density plans, may have unintended consequences.
Americans used to move a lot; now they don’t. It could be causing a social crisis
By Jerusalem Demsas, Vox, February 24, 2022. At the heart of America is a packed bag. But what happens when leaving is no longer an option?
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Not even San Francisco city departments can agree on neighborhood boundaries
By Nami Sumida, San Francisco Chronicle, February 24, 2022. The city also found that each department used different boundaries when reporting neighborhood-level metrics, which made it impossible to combine data across departments.
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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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