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Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

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

Zelda Bronstein - 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

Zelda Bronstein - 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...

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A regional-planning coup

Zelda Bronstein - May 16, 2016

In late April the year-long power struggle between our region’s land use and transportation planning agencies, respectively the Association of Bay Area Governments and...

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Regional government sells out Bay Area cities

Zelda Bronstein - April 15, 2016

I’ve been covering the current power struggle between the Association of Bay Area Governments, our region’s land use planning authority, and its transportation planning...

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When city planners treat us like infants

Zelda Bronstein - March 29, 2016

Tomorrow evening (Wed/30) the Planning Department will hold a “Community Discussion” of the Railyard Alternatives and I-280 Feasibility Study (RAB) at the Potrero Hill...

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Who’s ‘against change?’

Zelda Bronstein - March 27, 2016

Like 48 hills editor Tim Redmond, I welcome UC Berkeley geographer Dick Walker’s piece in the East Bay Express debunking the supply-side approach to...

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Developers win with “smart growth” rule

Zelda Bronstein - March 13, 2016

With a big assist from the state Legislature, the SF Planning Department opened a new front in the city’s density wars last week. On...

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The regional government merger: Is anyone asking why?

Zelda Bronstein - January 21, 2016

On Friday, January 8, the latest phase of the power struggle between the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments, a.k.a....

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The Nimbys and the housing crisis

Tim Redmond - January 4, 2016

I probably shouldn’t pay too much attention to a story about San Francisco written by a guy who lives in Venice and likes to...

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Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

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

ABAG leaders betray local cities

A regional-planning coup

Regional government sells out Bay Area cities

When city planners treat us like infants

Who’s ‘against change?’

Developers win with “smart growth” rule

The regional government merger: Is anyone asking why?

The Nimbys and the housing crisis

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