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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...

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Have regional planners set their targets on SF’s growth-control law?

June 15, 2016

Plan Bay Area—the controversial, state-mandated regional “blueprint” for land use and transportation planning through 2040—is back. Actually, it never went away; it just stopped...

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ABAG leaders betray local cities

May 18, 2016

The latest betrayal of Bay Area cities by the leadership of the Association of Bay Area Governments occurred on May 17, when the Joint...

Zelda Bronstein

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

Have regional planners set their targets on SF’s growth-control law?

ABAG leaders betray local cities

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