2021-06-nn-roundup

By Taylor Moore, Planning Magazine, Spring 2021. This roundup selects just three of the 12 described in the article.

By Nico Savidge, Mercury News, May 11, 2021. One of the Bay Area’s least-used freeways could become a tree-lined boulevard with new parks, housing and other development.

By Leonardo Castañeda, Mercury News, May 7, 2021. The population loss was felt strongly in the Bay Area, where Contra Costa was the only county to gain residents.

By Adrian Rodriguez, Marin Independent Journal, May 7, 2021. Repaving, extending sidewalks, and a new bike lane are part of the plan.

By Austin Walsh, Daily Journal, May 3, 2021. City Council considered raising commercial linkage fees to purchase land for affordable housing development and further negotiations on some large projects.

By Lisa Song and James Temple, ProPublica, April 29, 2021. A new analysis identifies serious flaws in the methodology used by the state Air Resources Board to assign carbon offset value to forests.

By Chris Lee and Marina Espinoza, California State Association of Counties, April 23, 2021. The dashboard consolidates previously scattered state housing data into an easy-to-use visual format.

By UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, April 22, 2021. Results suggest that ADUs do provide relatively affordable rental housing units for Californians, but the benefits may not be equitably shared.

By Frances Dinkelspiel, Berkeleyside, April 21, 2021. The developers first tried normal development channels, then redesigned the project pursuant to SB 35.

From HUD User, PD&R Edge, April 19, 2021. Fresno Housing Authority, in partnership with HUD, challenged student teams to draft affordable housing proposals for a five-parcel site in an agricultural community.