A Community Effort to Save Dominican Valley
Nestled in the northeast foothills of Black Canyon sits a heavily wooded, almost 20-acre parcel of land filled with a majestic old-growth forest that runs up steep... … more »
Nestled in the northeast foothills of Black Canyon sits a heavily wooded, almost 20-acre parcel of land filled with a majestic old-growth forest that runs up steep... … more »
The Town of Fairfax is embroiled in a heated debate about rent control in the wake of the Council passing Fairfax Rent Control Ordinances #870 and #871 without a p... … more »
A reporter left me a message the other day, wanting to get my opinion of the Housing Element process. From his voicemail, I could tell he was out to write a sto... … more »
Skinner’s “good RHNAs” charade The legislators’ CEQA hatefest was punctuated by a rambling, cryptic commentary from Sen. Nancy Skinner about funding the housi... … more »
In the investment world, they say talk is cheap but money is dear. So, what people are doing with their money, how they are spending it, and where they are inves... … more »
There’s no lack of fact-denying, anti-science people in the world, bent on holding onto really dumb ideas and resisting all attempts to be educated. But at the... … more »
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” ~ Joseph Goebbels. Last week, I wrote about the dismal track record of California’s state housing laws... … more »
Every article we read these days about affordable housing legislation presents formulas about what percentage of new units need to conform to various percentages o... … more »
Since 2008 and accelerating in 2016, State lawmakers have been following the same playbook, which has been largely written by the lobbying efforts of Big Real Esta... … more »
The term “spot zoning” is thrown around a lot in discussions about planning and development and the vast majority of the time the term is misused and misundersto... … more »