It still blows my mind that in the year 2025 wood smoke is equal to or greater than cars in terms of dangerous pollution, this is true not just in France but also California, according to this BAAQMD white paper.

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These are incredibly important roles, and an excellent way to give back to your community. bsky.app/profile/mayo...

If outside of Oakland, still report it via the resource list for each East Bay jurisdiction provided at bikeeastbay.org/hazards And use the guidelines here for best results: bikeeastbay.org/wp-content/u...

If it's in Oakland, make sure to report it in SeeClickFix & use the word "bike" or "bicycle" in the description. This will flag it in our @bikeeastbay.bsky.social watch area to be added to the "top ten" priority list sent to OakDOT monthly. I'll review & try to make birthday wishes come true!

Everyone should get to ask for one pothole to get a priority fix on their birthday

The draft 2026 TCAC Opportunity Maps are now out. belonging.berkeley.edu/2026-ctcachc...

The Fairyland jolly trolly and County Connection‘s 4 and 5 routes have one thing in common: outdated rolling stock that hampers their ability to run frequent service

SRVUSD preparing to purchase an office building for its HQ that it can also use to generate rent from other tenants, while also selling its old headquarters... why is office rent uncontroversial, but ground leases for housing are so difficult. www.danvillesanramon.com/san-ramon-va...

[email protected] is the email address where CALFIRE is collecting comments for the single-exit work group. If you live in California and feel any type of way about the issue, send an email! Whatever level of sophistication you can muster would be appreciated. Fine to send a quick/simple one.

You can file a public records request for the cities where officers have their primary residence; the results are revealing, both for stuff like this and how unaffordable this area is even for well compensated city employees

My statement on today’s news of the federal administration’s mobilization of National Guard and federal agents to the Bay Area.

To all my peeps in the Bay, help me get some traction with this petition: c.org/jHwSck4pQQ

🙏 This lot is a synecdoche for development in downtown Oakland pre and post COVID In 2019 the property owner wanted to preserve the warehouse and build a 6 story office/retail. In 2023 they wanted to demolish the warehouse to build 28k sqf of surface parking.

Not really "tough" at all - Pleasanton is a large city that can fix its enrollment problems with additional infill housing, if they made it legal for property owners to build more homes on land they own. www.danvillesanramon.com/blogs/tim-ta...

In 2024 Baker Tilly released a report with suggestions for how Oakland should reform its procurement process to deliver better value for Oaklanders, attract more bidders and allocate bids more fairly to applying businesses - eastbayforeveryone.org/wp-content/u...

This weekend I got around to reading Healy's history of the BART system. Now that SB63 passed and the regional funding measure is before us, it's motivating to read about the past critical moments when Bay Area transit *almost didn't happen*

Upzoning plus the large lots of uptown Oakland worked amazingly. Highlights both the promise of zoning reform from efforts like SB79, and also the need to make apartment construction on smaller lots easier (single stair reform) if we want to replicate this success.

please join me in keeping these two victims of traffic violence in our thoughts. it is so heartbreaking to repeatedly see our residents and visitors, especially the most vulnerable, be subject to such violence on our streets.

join us for an emergency transit-oriented victory celebration at Temescal Brewing in Oakland at 3pm on Saturday the 11th. (Temescal is one of the neighborhoods that really needed this upzoning!)

Today, like every other day, was a good day to upzone Rockridge. Thank you @governor.ca.gov and @scottwiener.bsky.social for finally making it happen. #SB79

Hey Berkeley - you got a couple days left to tell @berkeleyca.gov that you support an ambitious corridor upzoning.

In Alamo at application hearing for the first multifamily housing application in this CDP in 40 years.

@jwbee.bsky.social you can’t fool us Jeff. we know who you are.

Unfassbar... in related news: In der Bay Area kam grad raus, dass dort die Wasserstoffflotte je nach Modell nur zu 43% oder 64% der Zeit einsatzbereit war. Wäre spannend mal Zahlen der SASA zu kriegen.

California is one of the only states to widely deploy sound barriers around highways and we’ve also largely stopped doing that www.nber.org/papers/w34298

We need to get real about where much needed transit operation funds is going to come from. From @adinalevin.bsky.social:

Our comment to @cityofoakland.bsky.social Planning Commission on the General Plan update eastbayforeveryone.org/wp-content/u...

In 2024, AC Transit's hydrogen bus fleet achieved an availability rate of 43% (for the 2018 variety) and 64% (for the 2022 variety). Essentially you need twice as many hydrogen buses as service you want to run actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

Save the date: our next monthly meeting is in-person on Wednesday, October 8 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. We are gathering in downtown Oakland at 1111 Broadway, 2nd floor. We'll also be broadcasting on Zoom.

Sort of odd to frame lower home prices in Oakland - a city with more renters than homeowners - as an automatically bad thing. This story also ignores how the boom in apartment construction in downtown Oakland might be impacting sale prices, and/or whether there are composition effects

Our statement on the horrible traffic violence near Emerson Elementary

AB 645, which allows Oakland to install speed cameras and fine speeding drivers, was signed by the Governor in October 2023. It took until June 2025 for enabling legislation to pass the Oakland City Council. Speed cameras still not installed yet. www.oaklandca.gov/Public-Safet...

Hello from some of America’s first public housing: the United States Housing Corporation’s development at the Mare Island shipyard in Vallejo, CA.

Last year we sent a letter to Walnut Creek encouraging them to modify their Objective Design Standards to remove a "multiple materials" requirement for building façades and also to reduce required driveway widths, which are wider than the fire code.

Thank you @votealexlee.bsky.social for your YES vote on SB 79!

Thank you @buffywicks.bsky.social and Asm Ávila Farías for your vote and your leadership on SB 79!

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly floor! The bill now goes to the Senate for concurrence, then the Governor’s desk. cayimby.org/legislation/...

Oakland has developed a great Slow Streets network proposal, but they need your input to hone the segments & make sure they’re on the right track. Comments are due by this Friday 9/11. Check out the map at the link below then email [email protected]. www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...

A great time to discuss this report with fellow policy advocates would be at our MONTHLY MEETING, which is TONIGHT on Zoom. zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Terner Center released a new report today entitled “The Financial Impacts of Construction Defect Liability on Housing Development in California.” It finds condo developers pay 3-4x for CGL insurance policies for similarly designed & built rental projects. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/the-fin...

I have identified every Mills Act contract in Berkeley. Nothing in the public record suggests this has been done by city officials. I sense a certain geographic bias to this tax abatement.

It's an important moment to speak out for transit funding

Seems unlikely that Hayward and Newark drivers are so different that red light cameras would benefit one place and detract from the other. www.mercurynews.com/2025/09/04/d...

Contra Costa County has been engaged in a twenty year battle with a property owner in rural Livermore over entry gates that are eight feet tall when the code requires a maximum of seven feet. contra-costa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

Salute the troops

Good story that would be much better if it included this bar chart from the print edition showing how much the East Bay counties contribute to BART service compared to San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. www.mercurynews.com/2025/09/03/t...