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Can MTC take over Bay Area Planning?

Friday May 20, 2016 - 09:07:00 AM
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There's a lot going on at the regional planning level. Berkeley resident and former Planet columnist Zelda Bronstein has been covering it in exhaustive detail on the 48Hills website maintained by former Bay Guardian editor Tim Redmond. See it here: 

A regional-planning coup: Bay Area could become the only region where unaccountable transit agency controls local planning policy

For a shorter take on the topic, see this op-ed by another Berkeleyan, Revan Tranter: 

Maintain the local voice in Bay Area land use — oppose MTC plan

According to the Chronicle: Revan Tranter is a former executive director of the Association of Bay Area Governments. He is joined in this view by former ABAG executive directors Eugene Leong and Henry Gardner[the best city manager Oakland ever had].