David Jen
Science Journalist at Freelance
Independent #journalist. Energy, water and local government. Bylines at @IndepNewspaper, @ASCETweets, @SemiEngineering. Tips/inquiries: [email protected].
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2 weeks ago |
independentnews.com | David Jen
A plan to build 27 single-family homes along Vineyard Avenue in east Pleasanton received initial planning-commission approval last month, allowing the project to meet the terms and timing of a purchase agreement with the Pleasanton Unified School District, which currently owns the property.
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2 weeks ago |
independentnews.com | David Jen
Newly redrawn fire-hazard zones might now require some Dublin property owners to disclose their hazard status during a home sale when they previously did not have to do so. The new hazard maps, released by the State Fire Marshal on Feb. 24, will also impose additional design and construction requirements for new construction built within high-severity zones.
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2 weeks ago |
7x7.com | David Jen
Bay Area landscape architect William Penn Mott, Jr., eventual director of the National Park Service, had a grand idea: to encircle the entire Bay Area with a continuous, multi-use trail. Almost 40 years later, the vision of a 550-mile circuit around the region is nearly complete.
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3 weeks ago |
independentnews.com | David Jen
A contract dispute between the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) and the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District (LARPD) might head to court to determine whether the former misspent more than $100 million of taxpayer money.
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4 weeks ago |
independentnews.com | David Jen
City council direction for new housing east of the city limits will hinge upon the viability of the El Charro Road extension project, which would upgrade the currently narrow road traversing the Chain of Lakes ponds into a four-lane connection between Stoneridge Drive and Stanley Boulevard. The 330 Land Co. and USL Pleasanton Lakes recently approached the city for feedback on plans to build up to 900 homes on Alameda County land adjacent to Pleasanton’s Ironwood neighborhood.
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