January 5, 2021
The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.
Housing/Development
- Giants’ Mission Rock megaproject is taking shape across from Oracle Park [San Francisco Chronicle]
- East Bay developer proposes tearing down grocery, Starbucks for high-density housing project [East Bay Times]
- Affordable housing set aside in Alameda for school employees [East Bay Times]
- Downtown San Jose housing site pushes ahead with real estate deal [Mercury News]
- Up to 250 homes proposed for old Santa Rosa winery site in revived development project [Press Democrat]
- Two Windsor housing projects stalled as builder defaults on one, fails to advance other [Press Democrat]
- S.F. wants to cancel homeless count amid COVID-19 concerns [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Alameda County decides not to count homeless population this year [The Oaklandside]
- UCSF to build more than 1,200 units of workforce housing as part of deal reached with city [San Francisco Examiner]
- SF, UCSF Announce Community Benefits Package as Parnassus Heights Project Moves Forward [NBC Bay Area]
- Sacramento region is California’s housing and growth hot spot, led by hill counties [Sacramento Bee]
Transportation
- Caltrain electrification halfway done [San Mateo Daily Journal]
- Moral of the story — drive with a dashcam: Roadshow [Mercury News]
- Five transit topics to watch in 2021 [Mass Transit Magazine]
- Budget shortfalls mean rethinking mass transit funding and strategies [Marketplace]
Other
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up Statewide Except For Transportation, Study Suggests [Capital Radio]
- Enjoying New Clout, Environmental Justice Groups May Press Biden [KQED]
- Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth [New York Times]
- Opinion: Biden must confront plastic pollution in a serious way [East Bay Times]