February 18, 2021
The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.
Housing/Development
- High Number of Evictions Prompts Richmond to Consider Stronger Protections [KQED]
- Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning as a way to correct the arc of its ugly housing history [Berkeleyside]
- Real estate: Big new office, housing towers eyed in downtown San Jose [Mercury News]
- Bay Area’s high housing costs drag on innovation, prosperity [Mercury News]
- Auto dealerships mixed with new housing? An East Bay city is interested [Mercury News]
- Editorial: People's Park protests aside, the people need housing [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Marin developing standards to shape look of denser housing [Marin Independent Journal]
- Bay Area Exodus: Report Lists Where San Franciscans Are Going [NBC Bay Area]
- People are leaving S.F., but not for Austin or Miami. USPS data shows where they went [San Francisco Chronicle]
Transportation
- Sonoma County Transit, other agencies offering free rides to vaccination sites [Press Democrat]
- Litter cleanup costs soaring for Caltrans: Roadshow [Mercury News]
- N.Y.C. Staves Off Cuts to Public Transit, Despite Dire Warnings [New York Times]
- Is This High-Speed Train the First Megaproject of the Biden Era? [Bloomberg]
- Bringing back cable cars would be a ‘heavy lift’ [San Francisco Examiner]
Other
- Offshore wind energy proposal hailed as win-win [Local News Matters]