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Major auto testing and technology center likely to move forward -- even though the plan has been shot down by the voters once.

Simi Valley may appel superior Court ruling on 108-unit project, claiming it is a commercial enterprise not a residential use.

Cities across California are eliminating parking minimums in order to reduce automobile dependency and promote better urban design. The state legislature is getting in on the act too. 

Transit agencies say guidelines intended to encourage affordable housing may actually stifle affordable development.

Appellate court rejects all of a Malibu property owners arguments in dispute over a gate and structure located on a Coastal Conservancy easement.

The new database will help cities and counties with their environmental justice elements for their general plans, as required by SB 1000.

Billion-dollar UC Davis project will be located adjacent to Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood. Residents have filed a CEQA lawsuit, while the city has committed 20% of EIFD money to affordable housing.

The California Legislature has come roaring back in 2021 with a whole new set of bills affecting planning and development.

The council vote was unanimous, but now comes the hard part: Implementing an upzoning in a city with strong homeowner advocacy and fire-prone hillside neighborhoods.

Except for two minor adjustments, all cities lose their appeals. Half of Orange County cities appealed.

Council has taken first vote, but it will be several more months at least before the new policy allowing up to four units on every parcel is formally adopted. >>read more

Marin County is elite, but Marin City is not. Yet that's where the county's first SB 35 project is going. >>read more