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Dive Brief: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a legislative package containing sweeping permitting changes for the city, the latest in the mayor’s ongoing PermitSF plan to remove barriers and streamline San Francisco’s permitting process. The changes would reduce permitting fees for development projects of $100 million or more and eliminate a requirement to meet…

The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis.​ Throughout the past few months, we’ve discussed how to set sustainability strategy through an approach we call Sustainability Tension Management, which allows practitioners to adapt and operate fluidly in both the profit and loss culture of business and the policy…

Facilities managers face increased risk and liability during winter months, but proper planning now can prevent disruption, injury, and financial loss, says Nik Tozer, Managing Director of winter gritting at Nurture Group Don’t wait for the first frost, winter readiness starts now. Because of recent record-warm winters, many companies rely on reactive rather than proactive…

Dive Brief: The Department of Labor intends to rescind a 2024 rule on independent contractor classification, according to its regulatory agenda. The agency did not signal how it intends to change the rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The rule is a method of determining if a worker is an independent contractor or a…

There are ways in which saying no can become an essential leadership tool for managers. Facility managers have been schooled over the years to be the first person in the class to raise their hand and offer to take on a challenge. They have been taught to find practical solutions to internal customers’ problems and…

State has unconstitutionally underfunded public schools and are repeating mistakes that led to a landmark ruling more than 30 years ago.   September 12, 2025 The federal government, as well as many state and local governments, have been notoriously unwilling to provide adequate funds to fund government-owned facilities nationwide, leading to an ever-growing backlog of costly…