Vol. 20 No. 02 Feb 2005
TMDLs Could Force Everyone To Account For Past Sins
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: John KristHalf a century ago, farmers cultivating the fertile plains and valleys of Ventura County sprayed their crops with the miracle pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, a potent post-war product of American chemical ingenuity.
Price: $2.95Private Delta Storage Project Loses Another Round In Court
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: CP&DR StaffIn the latest setback for a proposed water project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a state appellate court has thrown out water permits and an environmental impact report approved by the State Water Resources Control Board.
Price: $2.95Sales Tax Law Blocks Development Incentives
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyA state appellate court has ruled that financial incentives the City of La Mirada provided to Corporate Express violated a state law intended to prevent cities from poaching sales tax-generating businesses from neighboring jurisdictions.
Price: $2.95Cal Supremes Define 'Construction' Narrowly In Victory For Long Beach
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: CP&DR StaffAn animal shelter project in the City of Long Beach that was partially funded by the city was not subject to the prevailing wage law for public works projects that was in effect at the time, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
Price: $2.95Court Says Multi-tasking Council Didn't Give Applicant Fair Hearing
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: CP&DR StaffA city council that is not paying attention during a quasi-judicial land use hearing does not provide due process to a permit applicant, the First District Court of Appeal has ruled.
Price: $2.95Q&A Naphtali Knox
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyNaphtali Knox has been a planner since the late 1950s. Prior to starting his own consulting firm, Naphtali H. Knox & Associates, in 1981, he was a planner for the Air Force, the cities of Des Moines, Iowa, and Palo Alto, and the University of Chicago. In 2004, the California Chapter of the American Planning Association selected Knox for its leadership and service award. In March, he is scheduled to receive APA's national planning award for distinguished leadership by a professional planner.
Price: $2.95Placentia Digs Big Hole For Rail Project
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyIt is rare for a suburban city of 50,000 people take the lead in a $440 million transportation project. The City of Placentia in northern Orange County has, though, and the effort has stirred political controversy and placed the city under financial strain.
Price: $2.95State Budget May Spare Locals
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyFor planners, developers and local government officials, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal for 2005-06 might be as important for what it does not contain as for what it does contain.
Price: $2.95Living and Working Adjacent To Rails Sounds Great, But Where Do We Park?
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: William FultonThroughout California, transit-oriented development (TOD) is the rage. Along the Gold Line in Los Angeles, a New Urbanist project appears to be rising out of the ground at every stop. High-rise condominium buildings are emerging adjacent to light-rail stops in downtown San Diego and radiating out of downtown San Jose. BART stations in the East Bay - such as the Pleasant Hill BART stop - have become magnets of high-density development in formerly low-density suburbs.
Price: $2.95State Supreme Court To Decide Questions On Final Map Discretion
1 February 2005 - 1:00am | Author: CP&DR StaffThe state Supreme Court has accepted for review an unusual Subdivision Map Act case from the City of Goleta.
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