#housing-development

#housing-development

Kermit Lynch has opened a shop in the North Bay. Photo: Clark Z. Terry Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers. Berkeley wine merchant Kermit Lynch has opened a new store the first expansion in its more than 50-year history at a shopping center in Larkspur. (San Francisco Chronicle) A professor's hidden camera caught a UC Berkeley doctoral candidate sabotaging another student's laptop, according to authorities who have charged the candidate with felony vandalism. (East Bay Times)

The plan, put forward by TfL's property arm, Places for London and Barratt Homes, would have seen approximately 300 new homes, including 40% affordable homes, built on the car park and on the light industrial land to the south of the station. The development had been recommended in the planning officer's report, but the councillors voted to reject it. The main reasons were strong local opposition to building over the car park and concerns about the buildings' height.

Sue Baker, a Labour councillor for Barnet Vale ward, told the committee she had received an overwhelming amount of negativity to the plans from residents. She listed the loss of the car park as problematic as it was used by many elderly residents as well as people with disabilities and mobility issues. Residents were concerned about the impact on the access road and station entrance as a school, St Catherine's RC Primary School, was also located close by.

Regardless of how people get to work or where they live, it turns out that most of us tend to spend the same amount of time commuting to work. Long suspected and at times disputed, a new review of people's commutes across 43 countries found a strong bias toward a daily commute of around 78 minutes (1.3 hours), regardless of how it occurs.

It's a pointless delay, and we know the reason why. It's because it's a new government and they have new priorities," he said, adding that money for new roads was now being "nicked" from public transport projects. "Public transport moves real numbers, it's what serious cities do ... if we keep taking money away from these projects and delaying them, we're just going to condemn more people to slowly losing the will to live in gridlock and missing out on time with their families.

We cannot pay our staff sufficient wages to live in comfort and dignity in this area.

Aiming to clear roadblocks to building housing in Berkeley, the city may soon create stricter requirements for its landmark designations process. In a city of about 120,000 residents, it takes only about 50 to trigger the process. If that designation is issued on the grounds that the site has some historic value, future attempts to alter the property become much more challenging. It's a tool councilmembers and housing advocates say has been weaponized to prevent or delay housing development in the city.

Both multifamily residential projects were proposed by DeNova Home Inc., which has come under public scrutiny after federal prosecutors charged its former owner and vice president with corruption in April. The father-and-son duo allegedly offered cash in a coffee thermos to an unidentified Antioch councilmember in an attempt to secure a vote in favor of a different housing development known as the Aviano project. The councilmember reported the matter to the FBI.

Plans to build a new neighbourhood in Southall have been revealed. Property developers Berkeley have unveiled proposals to create a 1,200-home district in the west London area, as the capital continues to expand along the Elizabeth line. Called Quarter Yards, the new 9-acre development will have 1,273 new homes and more than 105,000-square-feet of commercial space. It's part of a billion-pound regeneration of Southall and an 88-acre new town called the Green Quarter.

"desperate need"

The first real crack has opened in the logjam that halted construction of nearly half a million Phoenix-area houses: The water company EPCOR won the right to build up to 60,000 new homes in parts of the already-booming cities of Buckeye and Surprise, Arizona, as well as in other areas of Maricopa County, perennially listed as one of the nation's fastest-growing counties.

Under the mystifying label " Corridors Zoning Update," the City of Berkeley is proposing to upzone three low-rise, low-density neighborhood shopping streets-College (the Elmwood), North Shattuck, and Solano Avenues-for mostly market-rate housing. Paired with California's State Density Bonus law, the CZU would allow up to eight stories on College, 11 stories on Solano, and 12 stories on North Shattuck. The plan has four announced goals: Expand housing capacity Support local businesses Foster equity and inclusion Promote sustainability

Plans to water down protections for national parks such as Dartmoor and the Lake District in a kneejerk bid for growth will be devastating for nature, more than 170 organisations have told the prime minister. The Treasury is understood to be pushing for a weakening of protections for England's national parks and national landscapes in changes to planning law to make it easier for developers to build houses and infrastructure projects.

That effort has resulted in plans to build 11 projects and nearly 1,000 homes, Adams said in a press conference Thursday morning. "Where past administrations saw vacant lots and old office buildings, our administration saw housing," he said. He highlighted two new proposals on the Williamsburg waterfront and along the East River In East Harlem, where officials hope to build 900 and 800 homes, respectively. One-quarter of those homes would be set aside as affordable housing, Adams said.

A planning statement on behalf of developer L&Q explained the flats would form a "high-quality" development with a "high standard of residential accommodation".

Mayor Adams's Brooklyn Marine Terminal plan to transform the waterfront south of Brooklyn Bridge Park from the Columbia Street Waterfront to the Atlantic Basin in Red Hook into a mixed-use community with 6,000 new apartments and a modern marine freight hub won the required two-thirds approval from an oversight task force with local lawmakers and civic groups. The plan got through the

Plans for a new London Overground station at Surrey Canal Road have moved forward a bit after Lewisham Council approved additional funding to get the station built. The station on the Overground's Windrush line would serve the local area and a new housing development being built around the Millwall football ground. Although not included when the Overground was extended to Clapham Junction, passive provision was left to ensure the station could be added later.

New residences and apartment houses having an estimated cost of $2,869,724 today adorn the artistic hills north of the University campus which two years ago this afternoon were swept by a conflagration causing a $10,000,000 loss, the Gazette reported. Within these dwellings are furnishings far exceeding the personal property losses of the great fire. Berkeley has rehabilitated itself (in) another year there hardly will be left a trace of the terrific blow which fairly staggered the inhabitants of this college community but failed to stop its forward steps.

Crews Hill, an area with only a few hundred residents, could soon get 10,000 new homes. As reported in the Enfield Dispatch and , Crews Hill is one of two London areas apparently set to become a 'new town' over the next few years. The government's New Towns Taskforce was established in order to build up to 12 new settlements across the UK by the next election, and it reportedly has Crews Hill in its sights.

The Chronicle, which helped to sensationalize the "doom loop" narrative about San Francisco four years ago, now has a headline about the beginnings of a "boom loop." The article goes on to talk about the fact that the AI boom and rising rents still doesn't mean developers are rushing to build new housing yet. [Chronicle] The California Commission on Judicial Performance has admonished a Los Angeles County judge, Judge Enrique Monguia, for threatening to shoot defendants and attorneys, or to have them

Building new homes takes a long, long time. Often, developments get stuck in the planning system for years and years before they finally start construction, and that means housing isn't getting built fast enough to keep up with demand. But the government has come up with a scheme that it hopes will solve that. Two London neighbourhoods are among six sites in England that have just been added to the government's New Homes Accelerator programme.

This project is a rare chance to meet two of our city's urgent needs at once: building housing and advancing Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway.