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

Appellate court rules that county can't condition permit completeness on additional environmental information not on the checklist -- but can do so if the checklist is more complete. 

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.

"Reasonable foreseeable" development is so deeply embedded in CEQA practice that it seems hard to dislodge. But that doesn't mean CEQA reformers in Sacramento won't try.

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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.

Mt. Shasta charter school case shows that subjective design standards still matter and the threshold for an environmental impact report is low -- at least for non-residential projects. 

But after getting thumped in a local election, parking lot supporters -- backed by a local billionaire -- lose one in court as well.