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The City Sentinel April 3, 2021 By Patrick B. McGuigan The City Sentinel Endorsements The City Sentinel’s endorsement philosophy, detailed in print and online in recent years, leads the newspaper to make the best possible...
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When I was speaking across the country promoting the housing policy changes urged in my book, Generation Priced Out, I did not foresee my hometown of Berkeley ending exclusionary zoning before Seattle, Denver and other cities. To the contrary, my book discusses how Berkeley’s 1973 “Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance” became a national model for using “neighborhood character” and “public input” to stop new apartments. Through most of 2020, Berkeley refused to end exclusionary zoning. City officials would not even back Councilmember Lori Droste’s proposal to study allowing n...
A Model For Other Cities? When I was speaking across the country promoting the housing policy changes urged in Generation Priced Out, I did not foresee my hometown of Berkeley, California ending exclusionary zoning before Seattle, Denver and other cities. To the contrary, my book discusses how Berkeley’s 1973 “Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance” became a national model for using “neighborhood character” and “public input” to stop new apartments. Through most of 2020, Berkeley refused to end exclusionary zoning. City officials would not even back Councilmember Lori Droste’s ...
It was easy to catch the mule and the pony – figuring out where they came from took a little more effort, Hancock Fire Chief Tom Bates said after responding to a report of two loose horses on Forest Road at 6:20 a.m. on Sunday.“Sure enough, there’s a...