California Forever, the parent company behind the East Solano Plan to build a new city of up to 400,000 residents on the northeastern edge of the Bay Area, reached an agreement with Solano County on a new process for advancing the plan

The city bought the theater to avoid sale to an evangelical church. That set up an explosion of litigation -- which the city is winning and the church is losing.

Attorney General Rob Bonta is appealing a Superior Court decision that halted the enforcement of Senate Bill 9 in charter cities

A nearby office-building owner challenged the infill exemption on a condo project, claiming rare species were in the vicinity. In a case of dueling biologists, the Court of Appeal ruled that the species weren't rare enough to qualify.

The Department of Housing and Community Development has determined that the City and County of San Francisco missed its housing permitting goals in 2023

In case challenging Flower Growers high-rise proposal, court finds that city properly adopted Appendix G as its CEQA checklist.

Los Angeles-based planner Max Podemski authors A Paradise of Small Houses, celebrating the history and future of working-class housing from row houses to triple-deckers to the dingbat. 

Using a clever combination of local and state housing incentives, Costco is getting into the housing business in South Los Angeles

HUD awarded $85 million in grants for the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing program. California jurisdictions received a total of $15 million and four of the 20 grants awarded nationwide

The state's environmental agencies may be insulated from the new ruling stripping federal administrative agencies of power -- and they're picking up the slack. But do they have the capacity and expertise to do the job?

With the Capitol Annex project, the Legislature punches another hole in CEQA -- this time to move its own office building along. 

The CP&DR Vol. 39 No. 6 June 2024 Report