October 10, 2018
Housing/Development
- Central SoMa Plan Spurs Homeowner Feud [Bay City Beacon]
- Audio: Should California Expand Tax Breaks for Older Homeowners? Propositions 5, 1 and 2, Explained [KQED]
- Bay Area cities turn to startups to solve housing, traffic, other woes [Mercury News]
- Curtailing California's inheritance tax break would raise billions of dollars in property taxes, new analysis finds [Los Angeles Times]
- Ferry Building land nabs $291 million at sale [Curbed]
- Sen. Scott Wiener will introduce new version of transit density bill [Curbed]
- Sonoma County cancels real estate deal intended to produce 867 housing units in Santa Rosa [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
- Opinion: New BART housing law makes elections much more critical [East Bay Times]
- Belvedere seawall at risk of collapsing, officials say [East Bay Times]
- Breed to announce search for director to slash housing permitting times [San Francisco Chronicle]
Transportation
- SF slow to install pedestrian signals for visually impaired [SF Bay]
- The Best Bike Cities in America [Bicycling]
- Waymo Racks Up 10 Million Test Miles Ahead Of Launching Its Robotaxi Business [Forbes]
- E-scooters to return to SF streets on Oct. 15, but only in a handful of neighborhoods [San Francisco Examiner]
- Report: Petaluma pavement rated poor [Petaluma 360]
- Vallejo, Benicia at bottom of road condition report for 2017 [Fairfield Daily Republic]
- Santa Rosa CityBus plans to buy 4 electric buses, in 1st step toward a zero-emission fleet [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
- BART safety worries remain high, prompt changes: Roadshow [Mercury News]
Other
- Governor signs into law bill to help clear Delta of commercial derelicts [Fairfield Daily Republic]
- Earthquake retrofit program expands to Santa Rosa, Sonoma [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
- SF officials to test tap water across the city after Sunset District pesticide scare [San Francisco Chronicle]