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The Yerba Buena CBD, a property-based BID, is an integral part of San Francisco’s lively South of Market Area, known to many as SOMA. This area has gone through a dramatic transformation with [...]

Burlingame Avenue is a quaint yet vital downtown district on the San Francisco Peninsula, with local restaurants, boutiques, and well-known retail stores. Sales and values per square foot are [...]

Economic development comes in many shapes and sizes. Depending upon the makeup of your community, it could use any one, or possibly a combination, of the following: Infill residential or [...]

In December 2015, the Association of California Water Agencies, the California State Association of Counties, and the League of California Cities filed a constitutional amendment with the [...]

In recent times, there have been some negative headlines for a handful of Public-Private Partnerships, commonly known as “P3” projects.

Colorado’s first year with legalized marijuana saw tax receipts of $70 million—more than collected for alcohol. Now California is moving in the same direction.

With California’s continuing drought, there is heightened interest in the use of recycled water. For decades, California has developed “purple pipe” and some dual pipe systems to use treated [...]

NBS provides administration services for the many special assessment and special tax districts encompassed by the East Bay Regional Park District. This Park District is one of the largest of its [...]

Community Facilities District (CFD) special taxes remain a vital tool in most public agency’s toolbox. CFD’s are known for having financed hundreds of millions of dollars of California [...]

Summary Depending on the beholder’s viewpoint, water has been called a public resource, defined as an economic good, and categorized as a “tax,” subject to the rigors of California’s electorate [...]