“Mixed use” refers to developing structures and communities that have a mixture of residential, business and retail uses. Mixed-use is considered as a pedestrian-friendly and “smart growth” planning strategy.
Last year, Don Neu, Carlsbad’s City Planner, and David de Cordova met with the BIA North County Legislative Committee to talk about Carlsbad’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). Mr. de Cordova will be our guest speaker at our January 9th lunch meeting to present the […]
Whether you are new to the San Diego BIA or a long time member you may or may not be aware of one very important aspect of how we help our communities, by not only providing the infrastructure to develop safe places to live […]
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is California’s broadest environmental law. CEQA helps to guide the Department during issuance of permits and approval of projects. Courts have interpreted CEQA to afford the fullest protection of the environment within the reasonable scope of the statutes. Link for more information on this topic: https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/CEQA/Purpose […]
By Danielle GrommerschInclusionary zoning requires or incentivizes private developers to designate a certain percentage of the units in a given project as below market rate (BMR)—cheaper than their value on the market, and often less than the price of producing them. (The large majority of IZ programs are mandatory—80 percent of them according to one study.) […]
To divide or arrange (a territorial unit) into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible.
If there was any glimmer of hope for the State’s housing picture to finally benefit from applied examples of supply side housing economics, that hope surely vanished this week. Last Tuesday, San Fran’s Board of […]