CEQA Archives - 48 hills

Development

Is gentrification an environmental impact?

Tim Redmond - December 29, 2022

The battle over People’s Park has been raging since I was in sixth grade, and we could spend a huge amount of time talking...

Housing

New study shows private market can’t and won’t create workforce housing in SF

Tim Redmond - November 30, 2022

The city's own study shows that the entire Yimby narrative is based on a fundamental economic falsehood.

Development

The SoMa project that created a furor in the Assembly race is back again

Tim Redmond - October 25, 2022

Planning is trying again on 469 Stevenson, but the EIR appeal didn't delay a project that isn't going to be built any time soon anyway. Oh, and Yimby Law just lost.

Housing

Should shopping malls become housing? Yes—but only if the state does it right

John Elberling - August 30, 2022

The Legislature has responded to affordable-housing developers. But there's a lot of unfinished work to protect vulnerable communities.

Opinion

Why CEQA matters

Aaron Peskin - August 14, 2022

Blaming CEQA for California’s problems is easier than wrestling with the root causes of challenges like housing affordability and access to higher education

News + Politics

Scathing new city report repudiates Lee, Breed policies on Uber, Lyft

Tim Redmond - June 30, 2022

Planners say TNCs have caused terrible problems because the city didn't regulate them. Plus, on housing: It's capitalism, stupid.

Housing

Bogus group-housing plan approved—sort of

Tim Redmond - March 16, 2022

In a sign of how messed up state law has become, Supes allow five-unit building that developer says is too small.

Development

UCSF’s new hospital: A pretty building, but in the wrong place

Calvin Welch - January 12, 2022

The school's plans will make one part of the city more unlivable and the other part less healthy and wealthy.

Housing

Luxury housing will destroy the last low-income community in Soma

John Elberling - October 20, 2021

Oh, and on a site with very shaky ground, the building could be the next Leaning Tower.

Elections

School Board recall election set; Assembly candidates could run four times

Tim Redmond - October 18, 2021

Plus: Some very sketchy moves by signature gatherers for Boudin recall effort.

Tagged with: CEQA

Is gentrification an environmental impact?

New study shows private market can’t and won’t create workforce housing in SF

The SoMa project that created a furor in the Assembly race is back again

Should shopping malls become housing? Yes—but only if the state does it right

Why CEQA matters

Scathing new city report repudiates Lee, Breed policies on Uber, Lyft

Bogus group-housing plan approved—sort of

UCSF’s new hospital: A pretty building, but in the wrong place

Luxury housing will destroy the last low-income community in Soma

School Board recall election set; Assembly candidates could run four times

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