Director’s note: Here’s to 2022
Florentina Craciun cogently reports on what your Northern Section Board accomplished in 2021 and hopes to accomplish in 2022.
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News
Declining school enrollment can worsen traffic
By Dhawal Kataria, AICP, January 19, 2022. Even when student transportation is carefully considered in locating schools, unforeseen changes in land use and demographics can upset the best of plans.
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Making Mill Valley sustainable
By Dennis H. Klein, AICP, December 28, 2021. Strategically placed affordable housing could bring artists and craftspeople back to Mill Valley.
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Northern News February 2022
(Photo: Looking from Oakland to San Francisco, Ronan Furuta via Unsplash) • Two excellent feature articles • Six in “Who’s where” • 12 from our area admitted to AICP • 4 “Where in the world” pics • 12 articles excerpted in “Planning news roundup”
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Webinar: From Complete Streets to Complete Networks
10 am, Feb. 3. Moving beyond complete streets involves conducting a larger review of networks for each travel mode. Attend this free, live webinar for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
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Planning Commissioners Academy in March in San Ramon
By Afshan Hamid, AICP. Network and learn about Senate Bill 9, relationship-building with councils and staff, CEQA, streamlined housing laws, how to prepare findings and conditions of approval, wildfire planning, and new and pending legislation.
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Contra Costa County tidal marsh restoration will be the largest of its kind in California. But it’s taking forever
By Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, December 6, 2021. Tidal marshes are an excellent carbon sink and promote biodiversity, but a thorough permitting process is still required.
Appeals court rejects last legal challenge to California bullet train
By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2021. The court affirmed the use of Proposition 1A bond funds for a blended system of high-speed and improved conventional rail.
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An Oakland urban forester’s work reveals the plight of the city’s namesake
By Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 2021. Oak advocates say city and state leaders could do more to protect the trees and safeguard their status as a keystone species throughout California.
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Los Altos Hills passes “urgency ordinance” to restrict SB9 applications — inviting legal challenge
By Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2021. Mayor Kavita Tankha defended the rules, likely the first in the state, as accommodating residents’ desires to maintain their privacy, preserve open space, and reduce fire risk.