Journalists recently gathered in Cambridge, Mass., to learn about and discuss the nation's land use trends. California featured prominently, for better or worse.
In La Habra, the City Council delegated final approval of the housing element -- after negotiations with HCD -- to the city manager and didn't hold a final public hearing. An appellate court says that's fine.
The city's famous 1986 initiative required developers to prove that they could provide infrastructure according to city standards. But, as it turns out, the initiative didn't set the standards.
Los Angeles will expand its adaptive reuse policy, allowing office and commercial buildings to be converted into housing citywide, per a unanimous vote of the City Council
A program to educate California planners about wildfires and firefighters about planning won a 2025 American Planning Association National Planning Award
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to adopt the Family Zoning Plan, which will allow taller and more dense buildings particularly in the residential north and west sides of the city
by Ella Morner-Ritt and Jacob Madley on Dec 2, 2025
A nonprofit group based in the desert town of Shoshone, California in Inyo County has formed to propose a 1.2 million-acre Amargosa Basin National Monument
