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Where do San Rafael’s PDA funds go now?
The future downtown station area will need some work. Image from City of San Rafael. Now that the Civic Center Priority Development Area (PDA) has been rescinded, TAM is left with a bucket of...
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Steps forward and back in Bay Area parking policy
Circling for parking in downtown Palo Alto. Image by guilherme-pg on Flickr Parking is one of the lynchpin issues of urban design, and probably the one that gets peoples’ blood pumping fastest. So it’s...
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An entirely preventable death in San Rafael
The place of the crash. Image from Google Streetview. Someone lost a daughter last week. Olga Rodriguez was killed by a driver while crossing the street in downtown San Rafael. Though her unnamed...
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Competing for the next generation
Water Street in downtown Petaluma Last fall, I expressed a concern that Petaluma in the North Bay wasn’t doing enough to attract young, cutting-edge professionals, the group that Richard Florida calls...
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Red light cameras are good policy gone wrong
by Yousuf Fahimuddin, on Flickr Red light cameras have been deployed around the country to great effect, reducing crashes dramatically in New York City and Washington, DC. Given these successes in the...
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San Rafael must get a handle on pedestrian deaths
A New York City intersection before and after treatment. Image from NYCDOT Four people have suffered violent, brutal deaths in San Rafael in the past nine months. Each one was entirely preventable,...
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San Rafael needs a progressive after Nader Mansourian
First up: if you’re interested in becoming a new Director of Public Works for a small city, apply by the end of today. Downtown San Rafael, Image from the Business Improvement District. For years, San...
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Will anything ever change in Marin?
Not again. Image from KRON4 News With the death of Aura Celeste Machado on Point San Pedro Road in San Rafael still fresh in our minds, neighbors and safe streets activists are again calling for...
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New apartments coming to San Rafael with some very expensive parking
Where the new homes will be. On Wednesday, news broke that San Rafael could soon find itself home to another 162 households, thanks to a proposed redevelopment of the Third Street garage and a couple...
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The injustice of bundled parking
Just a few million dollars here. The other day, we looked at a new apartment building proposed for downtown San Rafael with mindbogglingly expensive parking and tried to determine how the project could...
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