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More Workshops on CA Affordable Housing Program

By Melanie Curry | | No Comments
California’s Strategic Growth Council is holding a second round of workshops on its guidelines for spending cap-and-trade funds on affordable housing and sustainable communities. The draft guidelines [PDF] incorporate input gathered over the summer as well as at several packed workshops held throughout the state in August of this year. The Affordable Housing and Sustainable […]

New CA Database Shows How Much Parking Costs and How Little It’s Used

By Melanie Curry | | 2 Comments
Zoning laws in California usually require new developments to come with a minimum number of parking spaces. Housing, restaurants, stores, movie theaters — everything requires some number of parking spaces, theoretically based on the best available data. Usually that data is whatever is listed in the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s (ITE) Parking Generation Manual. Since that manual […]

CA Seeks Input for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program

By Melanie Curry | | No Comments
Housing advocates and local officials gathered in Oakland last week to discuss guidelines for California’s new Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program (AHSC). It was one of three packed meetings held throughout the state by the Strategic Growth Council (SGC), the state agency that oversees the AHSC, to gather input on the new program’s guidelines.  The ASHC was created to […]

Reorganization or Shakeup? Change in Metro Staff Has Some Wondering About Highway Projects

By Damien Newton | | 11 Comments
“It’s a bloodletting.” While Metro’s public relations team is portraying the departure of several high-profile senior staff as nothing more than the by-product of a reorganization, some in Metro’s personnel believe the staff shakeup is being pushed by CEO Art Leahy to best prepare the agency for the massive construction projects that are coming online. […]
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