Berkeley (City)

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Mar 12	555 Fulton: When Parking By-Right Just Isn’t Enough: The San Francisco Planning Department has prepared an environmental document (mitigated negative declaration) for 555 Fulton (link to off-site 2.3 MB PDF). 555 Fulton is a five-story mixed-use residential and commercial project on Fulton between Octavia and Laguna, in Hayes Valley. In...
Mar 5	California Legislature Passes Legislation to Restore STA Funding: Actually encouraging news … from Sacramento? Could it be? Dare we hope? The State Legislature has passed a pair of bills, AB X8 6 and AB X8 9, which would establish a tax swap and restore State Transit Assistance (STA) funding, a critical source of money that transit agencies through...
Mar 3	Killing Muni Softly: Foreseeable Emergency: “Killing Muni Softly” is the sort of post title one would rather use at most once, preferably not at all — but certainly not as the headnote of an occasional series. No such luck in San Francisco, where transit is caught in a death cycle that may be on course to ...

2008 Nov	Summary of Recommendations on State Propositions, November 2008: This is a summary of my current thinking on state propositions on the November 2008 ballot. I'll add links as I write up remaining conclusions.A separate post provides my recommendations on local candidates and measures, including Berkeley, relevant special districts, and selected races in Oaklan...
2008 Nov	A Reluctant No on Prop 5 re: Nonviolent Drug Offenses: This was my toughest decision on this election. I waffled until the moment that I actually filled out my ballot tonight. And it wasn't for lack of data - I even had opposing emails from a public defender (Yes on 5) and a district attorney (No on 5) with lots of details about the measure.I agree e...
2008 Nov	Yes on Prop 11: Reform Redistricting for State Legislators: I waffled for awhile but decided to vote Yes.First: this is something that HAS to go through the initiative process. Legislators themselves will not succeed in rewriting the rules for how they get elected. Note the number of FORMER state legislators who are supporting Prop 11. These are people wh...

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