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This article originally appeared on KTVU SAN FRANCISCO – A plan to build a skyscraper with residential housing that would tower more than 50-stories high in San Francisco’s Sunset District near Ocean Beach and the San Francisco zoo is raising debate over development of affordable housing and the desire by some neighbors to preserve the character of…

Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: First Scott Wiener came for your neighborhood – now he is coming for California’s sensitive coastlines. Help us fightback by signing up using the form at the bottom of this page. This article originally appeared in CalMatters. California lawmakers have been busy over the last decade trying to make it easier to…

Eight-story condo buildings rising above the billionaire bedroom community of Los Altos Hills? Hundreds of apartments flanking the sprawling single-family subdivisions of Brentwood? A hundred and fifty homes perched high on a bucolic hillside in rural Marin County? These aren’t part of some fictional “Supersize the Suburbs” version of Monopoly. They’re among a growing number…

This article originally appeared in the SF Chronicle. By J.K. Dineen Marin City native Bettie Hodges has spent a half a century battling for equal access to education, decent housing and employment opportunities for low-income African Americans in one of California’s wealthiest counties. In 1979, she founded the Marin City Community Development Corporation, which for…

By Carmela Guaglianone  San Francisco has a tall task ahead of it: 82,000 homes by 2031. And now, The City is staring down a tall solution — just one of what will need to be many like it.  CH Planning LLC, a developer based out of Nevada with a portfolio of skyscrapers in the region, has proposed…

This article originally appeared in the Davis Vanguard Sacramento, CA – A coalition of communities are pushing back on recent housing proposals, and warn that SB 423, a permanent extension of SB 35, “gives developers unlimited ability to develop nearly anything, anywhere in California.” Recently Senator Scott Wiener introduced legislation that would make SB 35…

By: Dustin Gardiner for the SF Chronicle As cities across California try to avoid complying with new state housing laws, Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking state legislators to give him another tool to rein in scofflaw municipalities. Bonta’s office is sponsoring a bill that would give the attorney general the unconditional right to wade…

You may have heard that the Governor and the Attorney General recently announced a lawsuit against Huntington Beach for simply exercising their right to speak out about land use decisions and the future of their community. And this follows another twelve lawsuits against a dozen Bay Area cities by developer-backed groups. Is your city on…

This article was originally published in the Mercury News By: Katie Lauer ORINDA — How can cities balance new state guidelines restricting development in high-risk wildfire zones with parallel — and often conflicting — mandates for aggressive housing construction? In vulnerable areas like Orinda, where virtually the entire hillside city is subject to high fire…