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Little-known Yimby-developer bills will have big impact on local planning

December 3, 2017

Of the fifteen bills in the “housing package” signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on September 29, the one that got the most...

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The Lexus Lanes — and why they won’t work

October 19, 2017

One of the hallmarks of neoliberalism is the application of market solutions to market-generated problems. It’s an approach that’s bound to fail, because market-generated...

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Inside the Yimby conference

July 20, 2017

Last weekend about 120 attendees from 17 cities gathered in downtown Oakland for the Yimbytown 2017 conference. Organized by East Bay Forward, the event...

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YIMBYs, Smart Growth — and unanswered questions

February 20, 2017

On February 1 I flew to St. Louis for the New Partners for Smart Growth conference, the largest gathering dedicated to dense, transit-oriented/walkable/bikeable development...

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The year that local zoning control comes under attack

January 9, 2017

2017 is already shaping up as a year in which local control of development will come under unprecedented assault in California and in the...

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More than a million people in SF? Did anyone ask you?

November 28, 2016

It’s hard not to be riveted by the terrifying advance of Donald Trump’s presidency. But it would be a huge mistake to ignore less...

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Why won’t SFMade support Prop. X?

November 3, 2016

A seeming anomaly of San Francisco’s current election season is the opposition to Prop. X, which seeks to preserve manufacturing space in the city,...

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Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

October 22, 2016

San Francisco’s artists, small blue-collar businesses, and community-serving nonprofits are being forced out of the city by soaring rents; outright evictions; and, in many...

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Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

September 2, 2016

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

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Illegal office conversion: A case study

June 17, 2016

At the May 18 meeting of the San Francisco Board of Appeals, attorney James Reuben, a principal of Reuben, Junius & Rose, showed why...

Zelda Bronstein

Little-known Yimby-developer bills will have big impact on local planning

The Lexus Lanes — and why they won’t work

Inside the Yimby conference

YIMBYs, Smart Growth — and unanswered questions

The year that local zoning control comes under attack

More than a million people in SF? Did anyone ask you?

Why won’t SFMade support Prop. X?

Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Illegal office conversion: A case study

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