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Regional planning agencies are promoting "mobility hubs" to encourage multimodal transit. Development opportunities may follow. 

The Wiener bill, which squeaked through the Senate last week, would effectively take away land use authority from local governments -- and hand it to transit agencies, at least for the land they own. It's maybe Wiener's most aggressive bill yet -- but he has shown a willingness to compromise to get it through. 

Environmentalists, unions force Wiener to back off of SB 607. It's unclear what the final bill will look like.

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.

Councilmembers stick to their guns in reaffirming Main Street-oriented specific plan, rejecting big boxes and drive-throughs.

The name of California’s most storied economic region — Silicon Valley — betrays reality. The San Francisco Peninsula does not mine silicon. And, really, it’s not even a valley.

Wiener's bill to give transit agencies great power over development on their land got pushback at the Housing Committee but passed. Another Wiener bill that would have expanded his previous bills was killed. 

Proposed rule would eliminate critical habitat from protection under the federal law. But how will it affect existing federal habitat conservation plans, many of which are embedded in local general plans?

Paradise is only a third rebuilt after seven years -- and the community will be different than it used to be. But panelists in a recent webinar said reducing the risk in wildfire areas is more feasible than avoiding those areas altogether.

Pressured to rebuild Pacific Palisades, the City of Los Angeles may adopt a rare policy to help developers and builders sidestep lengthy permitting processes that can delay production of new housing

Huge new town might be a financial benefit to the troubled city, and Forever isn't getting anywhere with Solano County.