By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City, August 24, 2021. “The Oakland People’s Plan” is a response to the city’s RFP for an outside consulting group to lead the General Plan update process. The collective doesn’t want the community engagement lead; it wants the prime consulting contract for the general plan update.
Comprehensive Planning sucks. These Oaklanders want to make it better. Read More »
A Florida transplant is helping to improve Bay Area transit system performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Interview by Catarina Kidd, AICP.
Meet a local planner: Jennifer Fierman, AICP Read More »
By Sarah Allen, AICP. It was just a happy-hour gathering at Arthur Mac’s in Oakland, but it was clear that planners were ready to socialize once again.
First East Bay RAC in-person event since Covid Read More »
AICP CM credits approved for all six programs, free online to APA members. Register at www.spur.org, use APAFALL at checkout.
APA/SPUR Series, Oct and Nov, free to APA members Read More »
By Joshua Abrams, September 21, 2021. Thanks to funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, cities and counties now have free access to an Accessory Dwelling Unit calculator originally designed for San Mateo County.
Get your Accessory Dwelling Unit calculator, free Read More »
By Krystle Heaney, AICP, September 23, 2021. In the “cookbook,” the “recipes” are for projects. Easy as pie, a recipe can be “prepared” when the City has the right “ingredients.”
Crescent City’s ‘Economic Cookbook’ Read More »
IN THIS ISSUE • 4 excellent, locally authored articles and one from Next City about Oakland • 3 important announcements under Northern Section, plus 2 articles from Board members, 2 from HUD, and “Who’s where” (11) • 16 excerpts in “Planning news roundup” • and 4 photos in “Where in the world.”
Northern News October 2021 Read More »
By Naphtali H. Knox, FAICP, editor. If you are organized, have a good command of English grammar, and can spend time on the newsletter 10 times per year, you’re a candidate for a Northern News editor.
Seeking Northern News editors Read More »
By Hing Wong, AICP, and Alex Hinds. Northern Section is launching a new initiative – Connecting the Americas: Collaborative Planning, North and South. We are also exploring less expensive, shorter, in-person international activities and trips toward involving students and emerging and mid-career planners.
International planning finds a way Read More »
