Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Foreclosure has been less of an issue in San Mateo County compared to several other Bay Area counties and especially compared to the rest of California. I like to say that's because San Mateo County outsourced its moderately priced housing across the Bay and even into the Central Valley.
Still, the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
On Monday night, 4/28, the Redwood City City Council denied an appeal and approved the Cañada Vista development, the faculty/staff housing on the campus of Cañada College.
The site is currently a parking lot. Pending transfer of the land from Woodside to Redwood City, the development is ready to proceed. The ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
"San Mateo may have a Goodyear for cheap housing."
That was the screaming headline on the front page of the Examiner last December 10. Inside the paper, a calmer article reviewed plans for Peninsula Station, the proposed development by Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition in San Mateo. On the site of the Goodyear ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Carolyn Said in the SF Chronicle on 4/15/08 reported on an "Associated Press-AOL Money & Finance telephone poll of 1,002 adults, including 769 homeowners." Unsurprisingly, people are worried.
What interested me was that even as people worry about slumping home prices, they understand the reality that tightened credit and mortgage ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Last night, the San Mateo Planning Commission approved the first Site Plan and Architectural Review (SPAR) for the Bay Meadows project, phase 2. Housing Leadership Council endorsed the overall Bay Meadows II plan, and we spoke last night in favor of this first section of actual development. The vote was ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Today I attended HLC member Project Sentinel's fair housing symposium. Project Sentinel is a non-profit agency "providing services to help people resolve housing problems," and is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency.
They have had numerous calls from homeowners facing foreclosure, so I was interested to attend the morning workshop on that ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Rory Brown of the Almanac News reports that the Menlo Park Planning Commission approved the new version of the proposed Derry housing development:New Derry project wins support
Menlo Park Planning Commission OKs 108-condo project
The Menlo Park Planning Commission approved the new Derry condo-commercial project Tuesday. The 108-condo project is expected to ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
From an email from Redwood City's Redevelopment Agency:
General Plan Review: “Winds of Change”
Adapting to the Changing Realities of the 21st Century
Don Weden
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
6:00pm
The Historic Fox Theatre, Downtown Redwood City, 2215 Broadway
$10.00 fee payable at door
NO RSVP REQUIRED
Retired Planner Don Weden will ...
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