Over the past three years, the state has focused on ministerial approval, ADUs, and beefing up the housing element progress. But will all these changes result in more housing construction?
California will likely miss its emissions reductions goals for the next decade, in part due to unprecedented carbon dioxide emissions from the 2018 wildfire seasons.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Bay Area conservation groups separately sued the federal EPA for its failure to protect Redwood City’s salt ponds.
In Dana Point case, appellate court rules that three residences housing people involved in a drug treatment program are not exempt from the municipal code.
What's in the future: A lot of talk about low-VMT and high-VMT zones, renewed discussion of TDM, maybe some VMT banks -- and, yes, still a lot of LOS analysis, just not under CEQA.
Leading planners and developers give tips on how to help housing developers move their projects forward. One important idea: Don't become clamshells during contentious public hearings.
