News Briefs

As part of its participation in the 100 Resilient Cities program, the City of Oakland released Resilient Oakland: It Takes a Town to Thrive, a resilience playbook and call to action designed to tackle Oakland’s most pressing systemic and interdependent economic, social and physical challenges. >>read more

The American Planning Association announced its 2016 Great Places in America, including one honoree in California: downtown Santa Ana. >>read more

The Legislative Analysts Office has released a report on the impacts of Proposition 13. >>read more

The Oakland City Council approved dramatic reductions to its parking requirements last week, undoing regulations established in 1965. >>read more

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the largest residential complex in the history of Mission District, 3.5 years after the project was proposed. >>read more

The San Diego Association of Governments is turning to technology to get a detailed account of San Diegans’ driving habits. >>read more

Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose) and Assembly Member Jim Frazier (D-Oakley) have introduced two bills that would dedicate $7.4 billion annually for transportation projects. >>read more

The City of San Francisco announced a plan to upzone Central South of Market to accommodate around 7,800 new affordable and market-rate housing units and 40,000 new jobs. >>read more

Economic analysis firm BAE Urban Economics has released a report “CEQA in the 21st Century Environmental Quality, Economic Prosperity, and Sustainable Development in California” contending that, contrary to claims by many developers and planners, the California Environmental Quality Act supports economically and environmental sustainable development. >>read more

Riverside County reached a settlement with Highland Fairview, the developers of the World Logistics Center in Moreno Valley, to mitigate impacts of the massive facility. >>read more

Housing activists, including Urban Habitat and Housing California, are suing city of San Jose for a policy shift that undercuts state the Surplus Land Act, a state law designed to encourage affordable housing on public property... >>read more

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Garrett Wong ruled the city’s environmental review of the proposed Golden State Warriors’ arena in Mission Bay neighborhood was adequate. The court ruled the mitigations were reasonable and that local transit agencies were notified and able to respond to add additional services... >>read more