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CASA’s secret New York junket

January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

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What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

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Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

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BART Board votes to endorse Wiener housing bill

March 22, 2018

On March 8, the BART Board voted 5-4 to support SB 827 – state Sen. Scott Wiener’s housing bill -- with undetermined amendments that...

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Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

February 1, 2018

On January 19, I attended UCLA Extension’s 2018 Land Use Law and Planning Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Seated in...

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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...

Zelda Bronstein

CASA’s secret New York junket

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

BART Board votes to endorse Wiener housing bill

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

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

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