By Carly Graf, San Francisco Examiner, July 7, 2021. Scoot is out. Two scooter companies remain as options to cover transit service gaps left by the pandemic.
SF clashes with scooter company over permit violations: City wins Read More »
By Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2021. Higher-earning migrants also are creating new jobs for working-class locals.
Wealth, class, and remote work reshape California’s boomtowns Read More »
By Steve Matarazzo, August 1, 2021. Rely on your personal, educational, and professional qualities to advance your career — and fulfill your life.
You are the Ace in the Hole; don’t count on anyone else Read More »
By Julie Strupp, July 27, 2021. Oregon and California are renting and purchasing hotels to house the homeless — residents who have lost their homes to wildfire, and unhoused people.
States buying hotels for short- and long-term housing for wildfire survivors Read More »
By David Driskell, with Ian Carlton, Tyler Bump, and Michelle Anderson, August 11, 2021. SB9 and other initiatives propose changes to single-family zoning to create more “missing middle” housing, and in the process, more diverse housing and greater affordability. But economic analyses of the potential market response show some of these changes won’t result in much on-the-ground change. Why is that? What’s a planner to do?
Why zoning for Middle Housing doesn’t make it so Read More »
By Tom Pace, Community Development Director, Sacramento, July 16, 2021. Sacramento is not eliminating single-family housing; it is increasing housing opportunities in the city’s most desirable neighborhoods. But it is eliminating most, if not all, of the exclusive aspects of single-family zoning.
“Eliminating” single-family zoning? Read More »
By Noel W. Sterett, July 30, 2021. For 20 years, RLUIPA has helped thousands of religious groups overcome zoning barriers. But it remains a relatively unknown and under-enforced statute, and many religious groups don’t know that a strong federal civil rights law is available to them.
Municipalities pay millions to religious groups wrongly denied zoning approval Read More »
May 2010. Northern Section Director Darcy Kremin, AICP, presents Donald Bradley, AICP, with a surprise Certificate of Excellence for his leadership in conducting Northern Section’s AICP Exam preparation workshops since 1990. His distinguished career spans more than 60 years and has taken him around the world on large-scale and complex planning projects. Interview by Catarina Kidd, AICP.
Meet a local planner: Dr. Don Bradley Read More »
Seven northern California planning programs and projects have been recognized for their excellence.
Locals win state and national APA Awards Read More »
Northern Section’s membership is more female, Chinese, and Asian than the national APA membership, but is less Black and less White.
Snapshots of APA ethnicity and gender Read More »
