Archive for May 2011

SB 375 and fair share

Posted by Eric ⋅ 31 May 2011 ⋅ 7 Comments

Before Senate Bill 375, the basic premise of California’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) was that each city in a region would be expected to absorb its “fair share” of the region’s projected housing need at all income levels. Each city would theoretically undertake a planning process to ensure that it could accommodate its assigned … Continue reading »

A short-lived attempt

Posted by Eric ⋅ 15 May 2011 ⋅ 6 Comments

Is the Oakland Airport Connector “too costly to stop,” as Matier & Ross wrote at the Chronicle? BART director Robert Raburn, who was elected in part on an anti-OAC campaign in the very same district hosting the OAC, at least made an inquiry and tried to do something to stop it — but then immediately … Continue reading »

Transbay demolition and more on Flickr

Posted by Eric ⋅ 13 May 2011 ⋅ 2 Comments

If you have been reading this website for awhile, you might remember that a few years ago I used to maintain a fairly active Flickr account used in conjunction with the blog, uploading renderings and construction progress photos. That Flickr account has been sitting dormant for the past few years, but the time has come … Continue reading »