The annual state planners' conference -- being held right now in Pasadena -- appears to be bigger than ever. >>read more

Santa Barbara embraces vehicle miles traveled metrics in attempt to solve challenge of jobs-housing imbalance. >>read more

As part of its participation in the 100 Resilient Cities program, the City of Oakland released Resilient Oakland: It Takes a Town to Thrive, a resilience playbook and call to action designed to tackle Oakland’s most pressing systemic and interdependent economic, social and physical challenges. >>read more

Is San Jose again bearing Silicon Valley's housing burden? >>read more

The American Planning Association announced its 2016 Great Places in America, including one honoree in California: downtown Santa Ana. >>read more

Neighborhood character in Venice was a legitimate coastal issue, appellate court rules. >>read more