Santa Rosa: Senior Housing for Railroad Square
Press Democrat
The developer of a transit-oriented development in Railroad Square asked Wednesday to shift the location of affordable housing to make the project financially feasible, saying it could be a catalyst for building in the area as a whole...
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(September 2, 2010)
California: Appeal Sought for Raid on Redev Funds
Turlock Journal
The legality of the State of California's unprecedented $2.05 billion raid on local redevelopment funds is under appeal, following a California Redevelopment Association filing on Monday. In May, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd Connelly upheld the raid's legality, passed in July 2009 to balance California's 2009/2010 budget...
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(September 1, 2010)
Bay Area: Problem With Housing in CA is Oversupply
Marin Independent Journal
JUST WHEN it's becoming clear that the state's demand for more "affordable housing" needed to be revamped, the rigid hand of a regional bureaucracy rises again, this time in Novato. That city is facing a laundry list of new developments propelled by mandates from the Association of Bay Area Governments that each municipality build more housing. A systematic examination demonstrates that ABAG's command-control model has outlived its usefulness...
(August 31, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Around Dublin
"The projects' much lower density and townhome configuration could potentially create a constituency that may make it difficult to build out the Dublin Transit Center as (originally designed)."..
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(August 30, 2010)
Andriana Abariotes Joins Reconnecting America Board of Directors.
Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith cites her outstanding skill set in the arena of community development and affordable housing
Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith announced today the addition of Andriana Abariotes to the organization’s Board of Directors.
(August 26, 2010)
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Quote of the Day
San Francisco Chronicle
When we get this development underway and certainly completed, it's going to bring us to a whole different playing field, not only on the West Coast but globally...
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(August 26, 2010)
Sacramento: Railyard Project Up in the Air
Sacramento Bee
A major deadline involving the future of the downtown Sacramento railyard - and of its financially troubled owner - passed with hardly a peep Monday....
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(August 25, 2010)
Blogosphere: Partnerships for Increasing Infrastructure
Brookings
Thank you very much Mayor Villaraigosa. I am pleased to be here and very much appreciate your invitation to discuss Los Angeles' 30/10 Initiative and transportation reform with you and Senator Boxer. As you know, the proposal is profoundly important to the future health and prosperity of the Los Angeles metropolitan area....
(August 25, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Oregonian
"Rather than trying to place the burden on a particular area, we ought to be able to look at this on the aggregate and figure out how to achieve density goals,"
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(August 24, 2010)
Blogosphere: Parking Minimums Encourage Sprawl
Market Urbanism
Although we at Market Urbanism are big fans of Donald Shoup's work on parking minimums, we have to admit that rigorous econometric evidence that parking minimums mandate more parking than the market would otherwise supply has been a bit lacking. Randal O'Toole at The Antiplanner quite rightly asks to see empirical proof that parking minimums are binding...
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(August 24, 2010)
