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Cal Matters

Can a new agency crack the housing nut?

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco exodus: Couple flees the Mission to become Iowa hay farmers

Mercury News

Pouring concrete over toxic soil where 4,000 apartments may rise is not OK, activists tell Richmond council

Mercury News

Opinion: Why California is failing to put a dent in homelessness

Press Democrat

Sonoma County supervisors remove granny unit restrictions on some farm parcels

Berkeleyside

New ‘green stormwater spine’ in West Berkeley aims to clean water traveling to the bay

Storm Water Solutions

West Berkley begins work on green infrastructure project

Mercury News

Would you change your behavior for the planet? It’s complicated

Curbed SF

Trump administration says SF homeless camp feces violates the Clean Water Act

Local News Matters

Newly Signed Bill Gives BART More Access To Clean Power

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial: The EPA is blowing smoke on California air pollution

San Francisco Chronicle

Uber adds public transit to Bay Area app

Mercury News

Voom launches Bay Area helicopter service

San Francisco Chronicle

Gaze upon the new fare gates selected by BART

San Francisco Chronicle

BART board chooses new gates to help solve fare evasion problem

Mercury News

Say it isn’t so — No BART to downtown San Jose for another decade! Roadshow

Curbed SF

Downtown San Jose BART possibly delayed until 2030

Mercury News

Uber job cuts in Bay Area: 300

Napa Valley Register

Northbound Highway 29 ramps at Napa's First Street closing for 2 months

San Francisco Examiner

SF threatens to revoke Lyft’s e-bike permit

KTVU

Hope is coming for those stuck on one of the Bay Area’s worst commutes: State Route 37

Mercury News

Bay Area home sales fall steeply

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area home-price slump continues

Mercury News

Sand Hill sues Cupertino in latest skirmish over Vallco plan

San Francisco Examiner

$83M Mission Street affordable housing project closer to breaking ground

Los Angeles Times

Who wants to leave California? Young voters can’t afford housing, and conservatives feel alienated

San Francisco Chronicle

EPA blasts California, attempting to link SF/LA homelessness and pollution

KQED

How a Landmark Plastics Recycling Bill Fell Apart at the Last Moment

Wired

Cities Are Trying—Again—to Plan for Autonomous Vehicles

San Francisco Chronicle

SF approves as many as 10,000 e-scooters to hit the streets

San Francisco Examiner

SF to allow 10,000 e-scooters citywide, raising fears of ‘scooter-geddon part two’

San Francisco Chronicle

Jump, Lime, Scoot, Spin to operate scooters in SF, but not all in city are happy about it

Curbed SF

Lime and Spin scooters returning to SF streets

San Francisco Chronicle

BART studied putting up barriers between tracks and platforms to keep items, people off tracks

San Francisco Chronicle

BART searched far and wide for a new fare gate. The solution may come from Muni

Mercury News

BART weighs new gate designs in effort to cut down on fare cheats

Mercury News

It’s a jungle on our roads: Roadshow

Mercury News

Gas prices near $4 a gallon in California

Mercury News

BART delays won’t derail downtown San Jose momentum: experts

Marin Independent Journal

Marin OKs e-bikes on paths

Curbed SF

Where SF plans to build its next 40,000 homes

Mercury News

San Jose Unified narrows potential teacher housing sites to two schools

Press Democrat

Santa Rosa OKs protections for low-income renters after making concessions to landlords

Daily Californian

Bill aimed at tackling Bay Area housing crisis passes CA state legislature

Associated Press

Report details extent of water contamination in California

Los Angeles Times

California sues Trump administration over rollback of Endangered Species Act

Fairfield Daily Republic

Fairfield mayor recognizes the ‘Spering Way’ for transportation

San Francisco Chronicle

BART added 5 new Fleet of the Future cars this week

Mercury News

BART delays loom for downtown San Jose

Mercury News

Contra Costa’s proposed transportation sales tax gains momentum with county approval

San Francisco Chronicle

Fatalities rise in California from people stepping in front of moving trains

San Francisco Chronicle

California fires back at Trump for threatening to withhold highway funds

KQED

California Defiant as EPA Threatens to Pull Highway Funds Over Poor Air Quality

Mercury News

Late-night detours for paving loom: Roadshow

San Francisco Examiner

SF lawmakers warn Caltrain to come clean on electrification project delays

San Francisco Examiner

New Muni trains breaking down far less often

Curbed SF

BART to decide on gate redesign

Berkeleyside

Berkeley church launches housing project, with $1M city loan

KPIX-TV Project Home

Elderly And Low-Income Tenants Forced To Pay Landlord’s Mortgage

Mercury News

San Jose City Council debates granny flats, affordable housing and high-rises

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