PinnedChico Green Hot TakesThe City’s Hands-Off Approach is Our Greatest Barrier to Building Affordable and Sustainable…Lessons from Chico’s Community Development Director’s Housing PresentationJan 18, 2022Jan 18, 2022
Chico Green Hot TakesThe flooding in Chico’s homeless encampments was both tragic and entirely predictable.Lost Park apparently gets its name from locals forgetting it was city property. It is situated behind a parking lot used primarily for the…Oct 27, 2021Oct 27, 2021
Chico Green Hot TakesThe Tuscan Water District is at least as bad as it sounds.A colloquial telling of Western history goes like this: barbarian tribes developed into slave societies, then came feudalism, and finally…Sep 26, 2021Sep 26, 2021
Chico Green Hot TakesImagining OpportunitiesNothing signifies the “paradigm shift” brought on by Chico’s current General Plan like the panicked reaction of Fred Davis. Davis was…Sep 19, 2021Sep 19, 2021
Chico Green Hot TakesChico has a big housing problem.In order to satisfy the state of California, Chico has to produce a comprehensive “Housing Element” to the city’s General Plan. In it they…Sep 5, 2021Sep 5, 2021
Chico Green Hot TakesChico’s 2022 Housing Element UpdateEvery eight years we get a new housing plan from the City of Chico, called the Housing Element because it’s one part of the big plan: the…Aug 30, 2021Aug 30, 2021
Chico Green Hot TakesGreen Hot Takes from the City of Chico, CaAnother IPCC report came out detailing the range of terrible outcomes we’re facing if we don’t reverse course on fossil fuels. President…Aug 14, 2021Aug 14, 2021
