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City of Lafayette California - Almost Daily Briefing February 28 2024 28 February 2024 ( news )
City of Lafayette , state California ( By Press Release office)
Feb 28,2024
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The Almost Daily Briefing
Published news articles from local , regional , and national media on topics of interest to the #LoveLafayette Community
LOCAL NEWS
PG&E Invites Bay Area Customers To Coffee Connect Event - Customers can have a one - on - one with PG&E at the event happening later this week in the East Bay . ( Patch )
Palo Alto stops enforcing all - electric building requirement– Environmentalists cheered last year when Palo Alto adopted a new building code that effectively banned gas infrastructure in new development and required new buildings to be all - electric . But the mood turned darker on Feb . 26 , when the City Council unanimously agreed to stop enforcing its ban so as to comply with a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Board of Appeals . The federal court last year struck down a similar prohibition on gas infrastructure in Berkeley , a ruling that has forced dozens of cities to reconsider their environmentalist ambitions . ( Palo Alto Online )
OTHER NEWS
California home insurance crisis: Nationwide subsidiary to leave state - Crestbrook Insurance Co . , a subsidiary of Nationwide , is the latest insurer to withdraw home coverage from the state of California , according to public filings . ( San Francisco Chronicle )
US government may sue PacifiCorp , a Warren Buffett utility , for nearly $1B in wildfire costs
- The U . S . government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp , a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway , to recover nearly $1 billion in costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California , though the company is trying to negotiate a settlement . ( Associated Press )
American drivers are now even more distracted by their phones . Pedestrian deaths are soaring . - CMT recently analyzed driver behavior during millions of car trips . What it found should be troubling to anyone who uses a road in the US: During the pandemic , American drivers got even more distracted by their phones while driving . The amount of distracted driving hasn’t receded , even as life has mostly stabilized . The company found that both phone motion and screen interaction while driving went up roughly 20 percent between 2020 - 2022 . ( Vox )
LOCAL HAPPENINGS –refer to the
Full City Meeting Calendar
Emergency Preparedness Commission
Transportation & Circulation Commission
Public Art Committee
Environmental Task Force
Buy “Shop Local Lafayette” eCards to Support Local Businesses
– Bonus card promotion still underway
Lafayette Planning Applications Received
Major Development Projects Map
Lafayette Community Information & Emergency Radio AM 1670
Shop , Dine & Gather in Lafayette
HOUSING , TRANSPORTATION AND CITY PLANNING
Los Angeles Seeks Speedier Way to Build New Affordable Homes - As of early February , ED 1 has helped lay a pipeline of more than 16 , 150 affordable housing units across the city of Los Angeles , all without requiring any new funding , public subsidies , or tax credits , per a CalMatters analysis . That’s more than 2020 , 2021 , and 2022 combined , all by encouraging market - rate developers to do 100% affordable projects . City lawmakers are now weighing whether to codify the program’s streamlining reforms… ( Bloomberg CityLab )
No , Really . Building More Housing Can Combat Rising Rents - To many people , new home construction is synonymous with gentrification . But a new analysis reinforces how more supply drives down housing costs . ( Bloomberg CityLab )
The Great Compression - The era of the 400 - square - foot subdivision house is upon us . For example , a 63 - year - old retired nurse bought a 600 square - foot home in a subdivision 30 minutes from his hometown of Bend , OR , because it was what he could buy for less than $300 , 000 . ( New York Times )
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Oakland has fallen way behind schedule in paving roads
Guerrilla bus benches continue to pop up in Berkeley as city efforts stall
Historic Flagship Macy ' s In San Francisco ' s Union Square Among Locations Company Will Close
San Francisco apologizes to Black residents for decades of racist policies
San Jose Spotlight: Silicon Valley economy sees slow rebound post - pandemic
Sunnyvale tops list of Bay Area renter "sweet spots"
How CA ' s Fee Ban Will Affect Your Dinner Bill , App Fee , Concert Tickets And More
New York’s Remote Work Tax Under Attack From Closest Neighbors
Police chases are killing more and more Americans
MEANWHILE IN ANOTHER LAFAYETTE
The
Lafayette City Council approved an amendment to the city ' s firearm ordinanceto explicitly define buildings and spaces where firearms are prohibited under the ordinance , while exempting highly qualified retired law enforcement officers from the prohibition .
and
Brazilian Hospital reaches maximum capacity due to dengue - The FOB Hospital announced that due to the outbreak of dengue , chikungunya and Zika affecting the entire state of Minas Gerais , as well as in the cities of Ouro Branco and Conselheiro Lafaiete the service capacity of the units has reached critical levels and the hospital is operating at its maximum .
[Editor’s note:
Conselheiro Lafaieteis named after another Lafayette , not the French General; The Brazilian city was known as Queluz until 1934 , when it was renamed in tribute to former Brazilian Prime Minister , Counselor Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira . ]
AND FINALLY…
It’s the Year of the Dragon and scientists announced a recent discovery of a
240 - million - year - old fossil in southern China that resembled a “long and snakelike mythical Chinese dragon . ”The reptile , which measures 16 feet long , has 32 separate neck vertebrae .
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