LETTERS
From Kate Gillespie, AICP, Sacramento
News
“11 Black urbanists every planner should know”
By Pete Saunders, Planning Magazine, Winter 2021. This roundup selects just four of the eleven described in the article.
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What happens when SF’s largest employer goes ‘work from anywhere’
By Laura Bliss and Sarah Holder, Bloomberg CityLab, February 12, 2021. After so much baggage attached to Salesforce’s urban footprint, it now faces a potentially emptier future.
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The Californians are coming. So is their housing crisis.
By Conor Dougherty, The New York Times, February 12, 2021. For those tethered to the local economy, the influx of wealthier outsiders pushes housing costs further out of reach.
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New proposed bill sets ambitious offshore wind farm target
By Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, February 11, 2021. Humboldt County is one of the most likely locations for the first big wind farms to be phased in under the bill.
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Analysis: Strategies to lower cost and speed permanent supportive housing production
From UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, February 9, 2021. Four factors led to cost and time savings on the 833 Bryant Street development compared to similar projects.
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YIMBYs sue for even more housing via RHNA
By Benjamin Schneider, SF Weekly, February 4, 2021. Pro-housing activists accuse the state of underestimating the Bay Area’s housing allocation target.
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A Sunnyvale Toyota dealership is turning its car lot into apartments
By Nate Berg, Fast Company, February 3, 2021. The proposal converts the lot and the space above the dealership into mixed-use.
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How the federal government could help kill highways
By Max Reyes, Bloomberg CityLab, February 1, 2021. A new bill proposes funding for highway removal or alternation.
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Berkeley overhauls off-street parking
By Emilie Raguso, Berkeleyside, January 27, 2021. Most new housing projects in Berkeley will no longer have to build off-street parking.
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