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. Bay Area Voters to Decide Fate of Regionwide Transit Funding The Connect Bay Area transit funding measure will officially appear on the November 2026 ballot after election the campaign collected 305,000 signatures, nearly doubling the required 186,000. The tax measur

Up and down the state, lifeless '60s City Halls and other buildings are being connected to existing activity districts

L.A. judge rules that Pasadena can't rely on self-certification to avoid builder's remedy, even though application was filed before passage of AB 1886

Developer's argument that Local Coastal Program is a purely local policy that builders remedy can end-run falls flat.

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The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the Upper Westside development, clearing the way for a roughly 2,000-acre community

SANDAG used a different methodology and therefore did not include Solana Beach and downgraded Oceanside Transit Center. YIMBYs say the methodology did not follow state aw.

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. Prior to Implementing Alternative Plan, Palo Alto Beset with SB 79 Applications The City of Palo Alto, which has historically favored slow growth, adopted an alternative plan pursuant to Senate Bill 79 that went into effect two weeks after the law’s July 1 effective

We are reviving the CP&DR podcast! Bill Fulton and Josh Stephens discuss the latest planning news, including the statewide battle over transfer taxes (including Los Angeles Measure ULA), the uneven implementation of Senate Bill 79, and the November ballot measure that could upend the California Environmental Quality Act.

The moves reflect a new focus by the state on making sure rezonings required by housing elements reach the finish line.