Housing

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Keeping Up with Housing

With the Legislature scheduled to return to session next week, the Bay Area Council will be watching closely to ensure a number of important housin...
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Major Redwood City Life Sciences Project Advances

This week the Redwood City Council approved Longfellow Real Estate Partners to begin theCalifornia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) ...
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Visionary Google Plan with 7K Homes Gets Approval

We are thrilled to celebrate the momentous and unanimous approval of the Google North Bayshore Master Plan by the Mountain View City Council! This ...
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San Mateo County Governments Skirt Council-Supported Housing Law

In 2015 the Bay Area Council sponsored SB 1069 (Wieckowski) recognizing that Accessory Dwelling Units were an under-utilized source of housing in C...
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Cutting Red Tape to Spur More Housing, Lower Costs

This week, the Bay Area Council submitted a letter to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in support of a proposed ordinance by Supervisors Ahsh...
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Piling On: New Study Highlights CEQA’s Role in Housing Crisis

A new study by Bay Area Council member Holland & Knight reveals that housing remains the top target of California Environmental Quality Act (CE...
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Council-Supported Victory for Housing in Redwood City

The Bay Area Council put our commitment to alleviate this region’s housing crisis to work on Tuesday evening (May 16) and called in to encourage ...
Council Applauds Federal Bill that Aims to Eliminate Parking Requirements Near Transit image

Council Applauds Federal Bill that Aims to Eliminate Parking Requirements Near Transit

If a bill drops in Congress during debt ceiling negotiations with the fate of the world economy in the balance, does it make a sound? In the case o...
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CEQA Strikes Again!!

Citing costly delays from an abusive CEQA lawsuit, a nonprofit builder of a proposed UC Berkeley project to provide housing for homeless people ann...
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Costly Berkeley Housing Mandates Highlight Need for Continuing Reform

Costly, excessive and often unnecessary local fees, regulations and other mandates have been a major contributor to California’s sky-high housing...
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