A roundup -- and explanation -- of all the relevant planning and legislation that will beome law this year.

The battle over redevelopment of the Sunset Magazine headquarters in Menlo Pack has reached fever pitch, with the city refusing to back down in its resistance to the project and the developer filing a lawsuit asking that the city be hit with at least $6.6 million in fines.

The following awards were announced October 4 at the conference of the California Chapter of the American Planning Association, held in Los Angeles

This year's edition of the conference of the California Chapter of the American Planning Association arrives in a subdued version of Los Angeles

he Inland Empire suburb of Montclair is suing the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) after the agency withdrew funding for the planned A Line light-rail extension to Montclair

The move means that a ruling requiring CEQA analysis on the removal of each indnividual historic resoruce may now be used as precedent in future court cases.

In a case from Menifee, an appellate court rules that a project's sound wall was a mitigation and therefore the Class 32 exemption can't be applied.

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This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. San Francisco Considers $17 Billion Proposal to Protect Waterfront from Rising Seas The Port of San Francisco and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have presented a $17 billion study including proposals to save its bayside shoreline from rising sea levels. The San Fra

Governor said the legislation had too many bells and whistles on it.