Appellate court rules that county can't condition permit completeness on additional environmental information not on the checklist -- but can do so if the checklist is more complete. 

The Wiener bill, which squeaked through the Senate last week, would effectively take away land use authority for land near transit stops owned by transit agencies and hand it to the transit agencies that own the land. It's maybe Wiener's most aggressive bill yet -- but he has shown a willingness to compromise to get it through. 

The Orange County Superior Court has granted the Newsom administration and Attorney General Bonta permission to file amicus briefs supporting the City of Newport Beach

"Reasonable foreseeable" development is so deeply embedded in CEQA practice that it seems hard to dislodge. But that doesn't mean CEQA reformers in Sacramento won't try.

The CP&DR Vol. 40 No. 5 May 2025 Report

Los Angeles County has introduced a pilot initiative allowing licensed architects and engineers to self-certify that their building plans comply with county codes

For the past century or so, two industries have both fueled Los Angeles’s local economy and defined its civic image: Hollywood and real estate. Now that both are faltering, it's worth thinking about their communalities -- and their woeful indifference to each other. 

LCI would set mitigation fees and funds would likely to become another state source of affordable housing money.

13 bills are included. Two would permit tax-increment-style financing and entitlement incentives for adaptive reuse and commercial-to-industrial conversations. Those bills are already in the Senate.

In conjunction with his May Budget Revise, Gov. Newsom announced support for a several policies to promote housing development

Mt. Shasta charter school case shows that subjective design standards still matter and the threshold for an environmental impact report is low -- at least for non-residential projects. 

But after getting thumped in a local election, parking lot supporters -- backed by a local billionaire -- lose one in court as well.