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Approved Land Use Bills for 2001

Oct 1, 2001

other, Research Reports, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

Contains list of major land use bills that were approved by the California State Legislature in 2001.

Census Miscalcuates Prisoners, College Students

Oct 1, 2001

Chris Williamson, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001, William Fulton

Planning is essentially the process of analyzing people and places, and nothing informs that process more than the decennial Census. This past summer, California's newspapers were filled with the first important round of Census 2000 data – detailed information about population and housing counts, age and race profiles, and household size. This is called the "SF1" data – the Summary File 1 data, derived from the "short form" filled out by Americans in April 2000.

Why All the Anxiety about Big Boxes?

Oct 1, 2001

Stephen Svete, Trends, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

There are probably no two words that can get a planning commission or community more worked up than these: big box. Any self-respecting planner would agree that the Wal-Marts and the Home Depots of the world present a challenge to good suburban design, but one still has to wonder why so many collective hands are wringing.

EIR for Oakland Airport is Rejected: Court Demands Additional Study of Air Pollution, Noise Impacts

Oct 1, 2001

Legal Digest, other, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

An environmental impact report for a proposed Oakland International Airport expansion has been found flawed on numerous grounds by the First District Court of Appeal. The court held that the Port of Oakland, which operates the airport, relied on outdated air pollution information, did not support its decision not to study health risks related to that air pollution, and failed to analyze adequately nighttime noise impacts.

Tuolumne County Voters Likely To Decide Large Subdivision

Oct 1, 2001

Local Watch, Paul Shigley, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tuolumne County, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

The largest development project in Tuolumne County in decades could wind up as a referendum on the March 2002 ballot.

Bill Links Land Use Planning With Water; Lawmakers Approve Mostly Minor Planning Measures

Oct 1, 2001

Featured Articles, Legislation, Paul Shigley, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

Three bills intended to create a tighter link between land use planning and water supply topped the land use measures approved by the state Legislature this year.

CSU Pursues Private Development to Fund Campus

Oct 1, 2001

Paul Shigley, Public Development, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

The California State University system has developed 22 campuses and six satellite centers, but none of those efforts is similar to CSU's project in Ventura County.

Klamath Basin Water Dispute Offers Preview Of West's Future

Oct 1, 2001

Endangered Species Act, Environment Watch, John Krist, Siskiyou County, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

The fight over Klamath River water is not solely about the conflicting needs of farmers and fish, as protesters and newspaper headlines suggest. Nor is it about local control versus Washington bureaucrats. The simplistic slogans of the sagebrush rebels are inaccurate. Instead, it is about the false assumptions of the past finally colliding with the realities of the present, about faith in the land's boundless bounty finally running up against the truth of limits.

Ugly Politics Complicate Tustin Base Reuse

Oct 1, 2001

Deals, Morris Newman, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

Everybody who watches old movies knows this story line: A girl from a rich family falls in love with a boy from the poor side of town. It goes without saying that the parents of the rich girl are snobs, and they offer the boy a thick wad of cash to go away. But his heart is pure, and he spurns the dough. Boy and girl subsequently elope amid the sound of swelling music.

In Brief

Oct 1, 2001

In Brief, other, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

9th Circuit Extends Federal Law to Farmers of ‘Deep Ripping'

Oct 1, 2001

Legal Digest, other, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

In a 2-1 ruling, a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled that federal agencies have the authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate "deep ripping" of wetlands by farmers.

Viability of Los Angeles Secessions Caught in Complex Numbers Game

Oct 1, 2001

Insight, Los Angeles, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001, William Fulton

You learn in school that planning is about vision, but in the real world planning usually boils down to numbers ï¿½ numbers about what's going to happen in the future. But you can never really know what's going to happen in the future. The best you can do is guess.

Landfill Buffer Upheld Despite Lack of Supporting Evidence in Record

Oct 1, 2001

Legal Digest, other, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

A general plan requirement that placed a one-mile buffer on private land around a landfill in Placer County was supported by evidence in the record even though there appeared to be no scientific basis for it, the Third District Court of Appeal has ruled.

Court Sends Rent Review Case Back To City

Oct 1, 2001

Legal Digest, other, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

An appellate court has ordered the City of Concord's Rent Review Board to reconsider a request for rent increases filed by the owner of two mobile home parks.