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MEASURE FOR CLEAN AND HEALTHY BAY SURGES TOWARD JUNE BALLOT
Jan 15 2016
As reported on the front page of Thursday’s (Jan. 14) San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority voted unanimously to p...

COUNCIL CALLS FOR MERGER OF REGIONAL PLANNING AGENCIES
Jan 15 2016
Well-coordinated regional planning is absolutely critical if we are to address the region’s housing affordability crisis, upgrade its congested t...

COUNCIL’S ADVOCACY HELPING UNLEASH UNTAPPED HOUSING SUPPLY
Jan 8 2016
The Bay Area Council’s advocacy is helping unleash a significant but largely untapped source of affordable housing in the region.

COUNCIL PRIORITIES FARE WELL IN PROPOSED STATE BUDGET
Jan 8 2016
The Bay Area Council reacted generally favorably to the proposed 2016-17 state budget that Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled yesterday (Jan. 7). Here is a ...

New Poll Shows Strong Support for Stabilizing Higher Ed Funding
Jan 6 2016
The Bay Area Council today released results of a statewide poll that shows California voters want to put the brakes on decades of state funding cut...

HOUSING, TRAFFIC LEAD DISCUSSION WITH LEGISLATORS
Dec 18 2015
The Bay Area Council’s Government Relations Committee on Thursday (Dec. 17) met with Bay Area legislators to discuss recommendations from our rec...

COUNCIL’S 2016 POLICY AGENDA TAKES DEAD AIM AT REGION’S TOP CHALLENGES
Dec 4 2015
The Bay Area Council is taking dead aim at solving the region’s crisis-level housing and traffic problems with a 2016 policy agenda adopted this ...

COUNCIL MOURNS LOSS OF DOUGLAS SHORENSTEIN
Dec 4 2015
Council Chair Michael Covarrubias called for a moment of silence at yesterday’s (Dec. 3) Board of Directors meeting to honor beloved Bay Area bus...

NATIONAL URBAN PLANNING GURU APPLAUDS OUR ROADMAP FOR ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
Dec 4 2015
The Bay Area Council Economic Institute’s Roadmap for Economic Resilience got a nod this week from one of the top urban planning thinkers in the ...

BIG WIN FOR COMMUTER SHUTTLES, COMMUTERS
Nov 23 2015
Bay Area commuters were the big winners this week in a unanimous decision by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to make permanent a ...
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