Oakland’s First Mini-Forest Demonstrates Breakthroughs in Land Use Innovations This spring, the nonprofit I co-direct in my spare time...
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Permitted Oakland Pollinator Garden Addresses Decades Old Problems
Permitted Oakland Pollinator Garden Addresses Decades Old Problems I recently obtained the Caltrans permits for the new community...
Oakland’s Nightlife Gets a Boost: City Makes it Easier to Permit Alcohol Sales
OAKLAND’S NIGHTLIFE GETS A BOOST: CITY MAKES IT EASIER TO PERMIT ALCOHOL SALES A major boost to Oakland’s entertainment scene has gone...
OAKLAND COMMUNITY POLLINATOR GARDEN PROJECT REPLACING BLIGHT WITH BEAUTY
OAKLAND COMMUNITY POLLINATOR GARDEN PROJECT REPLACING BLIGHT WITH BEAUTY KPIX and KTVU both produced segments about a Sidewalk Trees &...
NEWSOM APPROVES CEQA REFORM THAT MAY ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE
NEWSOM APPROVES CEQA REFORM THAT MAY ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE KPIX ran a news segment on Governor Newsom’s June 30 signing of AB 130,...
AB 609: Exempting Urban Housing from CEQA
AB 609: Exempting Urban Housing from CEQA Support a law that might actually help solve California’s housing crisis. Urge your...
Oakland can no longer plant trees or build gardens. But we can.
Oakland can no longer plant trees or build gardens. But we can. (THE OAKLANDSIDE) Oaklandside reported that the volunteer...
Betting on Oakland Residential Development
Betting on Oakland Residential Development (SF GATE) I wrote this opinion piece in 2014 before Oakland caught on as the right place...
Turn Tax-defaulted Properties Into Housing
Turn Tax-defaulted Properties Into Housing (SF CHRONICLE) I wrote this San Francisco Chronicle Opinion Piece in 2016, but it is...
Chronicle Editorial: Environmental Law Misused by Unions Kills Housing
Chronicle Editorial: Environmental Law Misused by Unions Kills Housing (SF CHRONICLE) This San Francisco Chronicle editorial...