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. Indio and Imperial County Impose Moratoriums on Data Centers The Imperial County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a new 45-day interim moratorium on approving data center facilities in unincorporated areas. This comes after controversy surrounding the Imper

A recent appellate case declaring that a lot-line adjustment was not ministerial has been published, meaning it can now be used as precedent in other cases.

An appellate court has upheld San Francisco’s decision to use streamlined environmental review for a proposed housing project that incorporates an historic library, essentially upholding the city’s use of tiering off of its housing element environmental impact report. The ruling is unpublished and therefore cannot be used as precedent in other cases.

The question posed in one panel at the California Chapter, American Planning Association, conference last week was whether the California Environmental Quality Act should live or die. Everybody had a paddle – not to swat each other, but to vote yes or no. And despite the fact that most of the people in the room make their living as CEQA practitioners, the vote was surprisingly close.

In a complicated but unpublished ruling, an appellate court overturned a Santa Cruz judge's decision.

The recent Infill Summit revealed equal parts optimism and frustration over the state of development in California

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 Diego County, Bay Area Contemplate Transit Service Cuts if Funding Dries Up San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System released a draft proposal that would eliminate 33 of its 95 bus routes, ending service to SeaWorld, Cabrillo National Monument, Tierrasanta and par

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