Arent Fox Bay Area Land News - December 14, 2017
US/California/Bay Area News
Washington Post
Cities turn to ‘missing middle’ housing to keep older millennials from leaving
Cities and close-in suburbs looking to the future see a troubling trend: The millennials who rejuvenated their downtowns over the past decade are growing older and beginning to leave.
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Antea Group
Cleaner air is on the horizon as the Bay Area passes new regulation
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District recently adopted a new program aimed at reducing health risks from toxic emissions from facilities in the District, hundreds of which will be affected by the rule.
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Mercury News
Apple Park is one of the world’s most expensive buildings. What are some of the others?
Apple Park in Cupertino, Apple’s new “spaceship” campus, tops the list of the most expensive buildings in the United States.
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Mercury News
No housing bubble in sight — and other predictions for 2018
A real-estate site’s predictions for 2018 offer yet more disappointing news for would-be first-time homebuyers in California.
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East Bay Times
Bay Area housing: While prices keep climbing, mortgage delinquencies keep falling
Home prices keep climbing across the Bay Area, yet the region’s mortgage delinquency rates continue to fall.
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The Oregonian
Facebook adds nearly 1M square feet in central Oregon
The social networking company said Tuesday it will build two more massive data centers on its Prineville campus, where it has already spent more than $1 billion building three huge structures and a smaller, "cold storage" facility.
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SFGATE
Santa Cruz County: fourth least affordable real estate in the world?
Love visiting Santa Cruz and think it might be fun to live there? You might not be able to afford it. But then again, neither can the people who already live there.
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San Francisco News
San Francisco Business Times
Bay Area political figures, luminaries react to the sudden death of Mayor Ed Lee
The sudden death of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee at the age of 65 has left the city reeling, with stunned reactions and condolences coming in from local politicians, business people and celebrities, among others.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Ed Lee: just an ordinary guy who transformed a city
For a no-flash, longtime city bureaucrat who had to be cajoled into running San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee will be remembered for dramatically reshaping the city, but not changing himself at all.
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San Francisco Business Times
Ed Lee's legacy: San Francisco's booming economy and struggles with housing costs
Mayor Edwin Lee took office in the depths of the recession and then oversaw San Francisco's biggest jobs and development boom in decades.
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Business Insider
The new mayor of San Francisco, home of the most expensive real estate in America, is a 'life-long renter'
Breed is a native of San Francisco who grew up in public housing. Her family of five lived on $900 a month.
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San Francisco Chronicle
SF Mayor Ed Lee’s death complicates politics in next mayoral race
The unexpected death of Mayor Ed Lee has thrown even more intrigue into what was becoming a crowded race to succeed him when his term ended in 2020.
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco tech community mourns Ed Lee, an unlikely City Hall ally
Mayor Ed Lee once admitted he didn’t know how to work his Apple Watch, but his desire to learn more about technology led him to become an outspoken voice for the city’s burgeoning startups.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Breed is acting mayor — but what comes next?
Even before the sun rose Tuesday, the city’s political establishment began coalescing around London Breed as acting mayor — but just how long the Board of Supervisors president will hold the office is a bigger question.
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San Francisco Examiner
SF reaches $15.5M deal to buy McDonald’s on Haight, build affordable housing
San Francisco has reached a deal to purchase the blighted McDonald’s restaurant on Haight Street for $15.5 million and plans to turn the site into affordable housing.
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San Francisco Examiner
Supes introduce measure to separate SF’s ‘behemoth’ transit agency
Supervisors Ahsha Safai and Aaron Peskin on Tuesday introduced a charter amendment for the June 2018 election to split the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency into two separate agencies.
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San Francisco Examiner
Supervisors mull ‘caretaker’ mayors to replace London Breed in January
Acting Mayor London Breed may not hang onto her gig very long, if some members of the Board of Supervisors have their way.
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San Francisco Chronicle
London Breed painting herself as logical mayoral successor to Ed Lee
London Breed’s eulogy to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, delivered on a second-floor balcony in City Hall just hours after the mayor’s death on Tuesday, was in many senses a coming-out address.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Viewpoint: Mayor Lee’s unfinished business — housing
The tech boom that Mayor Ed Lee embraced ensured that the man who began his career fighting for poor tenants ended up presiding over a city known for some of the nation’s most unaffordable housing and pervasive homelessness.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Transbay Transit Center to see first bus line Dec. 26
The new Transbay Transit Center probably won’t open until June, but the first bus service from the new transportation hub will start the day after Christmas.
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San Francisco Chronicle
A new vision for the development of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
Architect David Adjaye, the Ghanian-British designer knighted in May by Queen Elizabeth, is tackling the rebirth of 420 acres at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
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South Bay News
Silicon Valley Business Journal
San Jose OKs 'tiny homes' approach for temporarily housing the homeless
San Jose is going to give the tiny homes concept a shot in its attempts to address the city's homelessness crisis.
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East Bay Times
San Jose student housing tower captures financing, investment
A key residential complex in downtown San Jose has captured the cash that it needs to be completed, the project’s developers say and property records show.
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Silicon Valley Business Journal
Mapped: Where San Jose building permits (and rents) are growing fastest
A study tracking building permits issued in San Jose highlights that new multifamily residential construction has begun to focus on downtown and immediately to the west.
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Peninsula News
Mountain View Voice
LASD seeks to buy Old Mill site for new school
The Los Altos School District is reviving efforts to acquire land for a new school site near the San Antonio Shopping Center, despite the property owner's unwillingness to sell and public vow to fight any attempts at eminent domain.
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The Almanac
Menlo Park: Should new library include housing?
Where to put a new main library and whether it should include housing were two questions discussed but not resolved at a public meeting held Monday, Dec. 4, at the Menlo Park Library.
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Palo Alto Online
Council approves pared-down sustainability plan
Trying for a leaner, meaner approach to its sustainability goals, the Palo Alto City Council approved a four-pronged revision to its 2018-2020 Sustainability Implementation Plan.
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San Francisco Business Times
Mountain View approves nearly 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project
A grand plan for a key part of Mountain View got a unanimous stamp of approval early Wednesday morning, a culmination of more than six years of planning and nearly three years of public meetings.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Opinion: In Mountain View, time to build the homes
This year’s legislative breakthrough on housing has yet to stem the tide of depressing dispatches from California’s shelter shortage, from spreading homelessness and a deadly hepatitis outbreak to ever-rising prices and stagnant supply.
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The Almanac
Menlo Park: Councilman Peter Ohtaki named next mayor
Marking the completion of another year, the Menlo Park City Council held its annual chair swap on Dec. 12 and passed the mayor's baton from Councilwoman Kirsten Keith to Councilman Peter Ohtaki, who had been serving as vice mayor.
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East Bay News
Mercury News
East Bay bus agency to launch Uber-like ‘on-demand’ service
Danville — Commuters in a small East Bay suburb will soon have more of an incentive to take public transit.
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East Bay Times
Planning panel backs newspaper’s bid to lease from Piedmont arts center
While some residents opposed allowing the Piedmont Post weekly newspaper to relocate to an office at Piedmont Center for the Arts at 801 Magnolia Ave., the Piedmont Planning Commission moved quickly Monday to urge granting the newspaper a conditional use permit.
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East Bay Times
589-unit waterfront housing project to go before Alameda officials
A spot on the Oakland Estuary where a commercial fishing fleet once docked may soon have housing, slips for recreational vessels and a public promenade.
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City of Alameda Planning Board
200-unit residential building approved in Waterfront Town Center of Alameda Point
On December 11, the Alameda Planning Board granted design review approval for a 200 unit multi-family residential building within the Waterfront Town Center area of Alameda Point (former Alameda Naval Air Station). The project also includes 8700 sf of ground floor retail space.
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Mercury News
Costco opponents sue to stop store in Pleasanton
Costco opponents have dropped plans for a citywide referendum against a planned new store, but they have sued in an attempt to overturn city approval for the project.
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San Francisco Business Times
'We aren't giving up': A's line up another swing for new Oakland ballpark
The Oakland Athletics are staying at the plate and swinging away at a new ballpark.
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