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Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: July 2024

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - S.F.’s Stonestown to become west side’s largest residential development in 50 years (SF Chronicle): The plan to convert the Stonestown...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

As San Francisco Fails to Meet Its Housing Goals, the City’s Approval Process for Housing Projects Just Got Much (Much) Faster and...

As expected, on June 28, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) determined that San Francisco has not made adequate progress toward its State-mandated housing production goal. The City’s Housing...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: June 2024

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - Ultra Wealthy Are Putting Money Behind Bets on San Francisco’s Comeback (Bloomberg): Big investments in City businesses and real...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: May 2024

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - Small and Mighty: How small businesses can reinvent downtown San Francisco (SPUR Policy Brief): SPUR’s research, drawn from a...more

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Orange County's AMI Jumps to $90,400 in 2024: What It Means for Affordable Housing

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced the 2024 Area Median Income (AMI) and Rent Limits for counties statewide. These numbers are impactful on a number of levels, but are extremely important...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

March 2024 Election: San Francisco Measures and a State Proposition to Watch

Voters in San Francisco and California will again confront a formidable ballot during the election on March 5, 2024, with an array of qualified City measures and one state proposition to consider....more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Senator Wiener Proposes Targeted CEQA Exemption for Downtown S.F. Projects

Recognizing that Downtown San Francisco is “struggling” post-pandemic, State Senator Scott Wiener has announced new legislation to exempt certain projects in the area from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Under the State Microscope, San Francisco Implements Its Housing Element and Avoids De-Certification

Throughout 2023, the State’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) loomed large in San Francisco land use policy and politics. In January 2023, the City adopted and HCD certified a new Housing Element setting...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening To: December 2023

San Francisco - Can Free Rent Jump-Start a Downtown San Francisco Revival? Pop-Up Retailers Say Maybe (SF Standard): Nearly halfway into the three-month program, called Vacant to Vibrant, stakeholders say it has breathed...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Tackling California’s Housing Crisis via AB 1633

Bill imposes a clock on CEQA review for certain infill housing projects, weakens project opponents' ability to obtain attorney fee awards...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening To: November 2023

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - San Francisco Office Market Shows Signs of Life (Wall Street Journal): Sales slowly materialize as some sellers accept lower prices,...more

Nossaman LLP

California Releases Annual Report of Localities Subject to SB 35’s Housing Streamlining Provisions

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During the summer of 2023, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released its updated Statewide Determination Summary for Senate Bill (SB) 35. In its report, HCD determined only 7% of California...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

City of Lafayette, Represented by Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, Prevails in Litigation Clarifying Relationship Between Housing...

In a decision partially published on November 30, 2022, Save Lafayette v. City of Lafayette, the First Appellate District Court of Appeal upheld the City of Lafayette’s approval of the Terraces of Lafayette (the “Project”), a...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening to: May 2023

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - Housing Wonks on a Mission to Shorten S.F.’s Permitting Process (Fixing Our City Podcast): Assemblymember Matt Haney and YIMBY...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

In With the New – Part One

BB&K’s New Law Guidance for a Well-Informed Start to 2023 - At the top of each new year, Best Best & Krieger LLP provides critical legal updates for public agencies and businesses based on new laws and court decisions from...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Will YIGBYs say ‘Hallelujah!’ in 2023?

Supporters of the Yes In God’s Back Yard (YIGBY) movement made a joyful noise this week when California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced that he was reintroducing legislation to allow by-right development...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

2022 Housing Legislation Overview – Major Pending Bills on the Governor’s Desk

The 2021–2022 California Legislative Session closed on August 31 and was dominated by further efforts to address the state’s continued housing crisis. The flurry of major legislation passed by the Legislature and now on the...more

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Bay Area Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Plan Nearly Final, Appeals Hearings Ongoing

The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is finalizing its Regional Housing Needs Allocation Plan (RHNA Plan) for the sixth housing element cycle (2023-2031), which allocates a total of over 440,000 housing units across...more

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