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Housing accountability unit will help local governments but also keep an eye on them.

Also on the legislative docket: Bills to restrict development in wildfire areas.

Peninsula city must meet ambitious RHNA target -- but passage of Measure Y maintains current height and density standards with little flexibility.

60% of Orange County cities challenge their targets, which are much higher than last time around.

In the 20 or so cities where growth and development was on the ballot, voters mostly sided with anti-development forces. San Diego and Monterey Park were the exceptions.

Already an epic-scale tragedy, California's wildfires--consuming a record 4 million acres this year--are effectively shrinking the amount of land available for housing and prompting planners to make tough choices between growth and safety.

Affordable housing, extension of vote requirements, several development projects all on ballots around the state.

Based on the new judges' dissent, an important San Francisco property "takings" case may be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Storage and housing facilities in urban areas are often seen is competing with one another. But Public Storage and Alta Housing joined forces to push seven-story project through in Mountain View.

Southern California and Bay Area MPOs must get more aggressive to meet RHNA goals and SB 375 goals.

Most involve incremental change, however, as major zoning reform bills all failed.

Terraces Of Lafayette, featuring in Golden Gates, moves forward at final SB 330 council meeting, but opponents have filed a new CEQA lawsuit.