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Article Local Works By Steven Baird

In Calabasas, the emergency plan enlists local neighbors

At the core of Calabasas’s plan is a simple assumption: Everyday communication will fail during an earthquake or wildfire. And even if it doesn’t, recent emergencies demonstrate that residents need reliable channels of communication for information.

Article Local Works By Jackie Krentzman

‘What they did was extraordinary.’ How this rural, low-income city sped up housing construction

“For a community of 20,000 to produce so many units of affordable housing over the course of five years is unprecedented in California, much less the nation,” said Ed Mayer, former executive director of the Butte County Housing Authority, of Oroville’s efforts.

Article Local Works By Jackie Krentzman

Visalia is a leader in building new homes, including for farmworkers

Farmworker housing is few and far between and much-needed in the Central Valley. Most full-time farmworkers make well below the income needed to obtain even some subsidized housing and often have to crowd together in housing designated for smaller families.

Article Legal Notes By Glen C. Hansen

How to create impact fees for classes of development

Over the summer, the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to a decade-long legal saga involving development impact fees — for now. Going forward, cities can expect to see more federal constitutional challenges to fee programs that seek to mitigate the impacts of new development. 

Article Local Works by Gary Petersen and Dr. Elissa Lee, OTD

To prevent the worst of wildfires, government needs to take a collaborative approach

“As wildfires grow more frequent and destructive, the most effective defense may begin not with technology or top-down policy, but with neighbors,” write Nevada City Council Member Gary Petersen and Dr. Elissa Lee. “Wildfire resilience depends on neighbors working together to protect each other.”

Article Solutions for Cities

Wildfire-inspired resiliency upgrades benefit communities all year long

As wildfires increase in size and ferocity, local governments are upgrading their buildings to ensure critical operations keep running. These upgrades often result in other benefits, including decarbonization and long-term cost savings. 

Article Local Works By Belinda Torres

West Sacramento’s decades-long revitalization vision begins to take shape at Grand Gateway

“I like to call it the story of West Sacramento taking little pieces of what the city had inherited and having to kind of reimagine what we could do,” said Mark Polhemus, the city’s community investment manager.

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