February 16, 2021
The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.
Housing/Development
- American Canyon explores proposed homes on landmark hill [Napa Valley Register]
- Sausalito general plan clears, but housing rifts remain [Marin Independent Journal]
- Marin real estate market observers forecast robust year [Marin Independent Journal]
- San Rafael apartment building proposed in business zone [Marin Independent Journal]
- Affordable housing, jobs, top of mind for SDC’s future [Sonoma Index-Tribune]
- North Bay Q&A: Thousands of Sonoma County renters falling behind due to pandemic [Press Democrat]
- Downtown San Francisco is reeling. More remote work could add to the pain [San Francisco Chronicle]
- As San Francisco's office market tanked, one developer kept building its new tower [San Francisco Chronicle]
- The Californians are coming. So is their housing crisis. [Sf Gate]
- Bryant Street project offers model for faster, cheaper affordable housing construction [San Francisco Examiner]
- Brooklyn’s Big Street Address Mess [New York Times]
- Berkeley considers ending single-family zoning [Mercury News]
Transportation
- Why Just Allowing Fourplexes Won’t Solve California’s Housing Affordability Crisis [KQED]
- Possible wine country roundabouts put on fast track for Napa County [Napa Valley Register]
- The Auto Industry Bets Its Future on Batteries [New York Times]
- Catalytic converter thefts aren’t just a Bay Area problem: Roadshow [Mercury News]
- Why must they block the Skyline Boulevard vista point? Roadshow [Mercury News]
- These nicknames for bad drivers aren’t insulting enough: Roadshow [Mercury News]
- AC Transit offers free rides to Oakland Coliseum coronavirus vaccination site [Mercury News]
- New push underway to build a bike lane across the entire Bay Bridge [SF Gate]
- Bay Area transit agencies at odds over regionalization [San Mateo Daily Journal]
- Post-Covid, Transit Agencies Must Look Beyond Ridership [Bloomberg]
- Transit agencies celebrate Black History Month [Mass Transit]
Other
- Scientists still waiting to prove a Putah Creek-born ‘race’ of salmon [Fairfield Daily Republic]
- California to appeal court ruling on bumblebee protections [Marin Independent Journal]
- How Bay Area farms could give Biden a blueprint for fighting climate change [San Francisco Chronicle]