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OPR issues guidelines for implementing SB 1000, which requires local governments to address EJ directly in planning for the first time.

After messy hearing in the Assembly Local Government Committee, other bills in the Senate housing package move forward as legislature faces month-end deadline.

Only 29 jurisdictions statewide are completely exempt from the new law -- including several small affluent cities.

Stakeholders in San Francisco's industrial Dogpatch neighborhood welcome mixed-use, 2,400-unit redevelopment of former gas-fired power station.

New traffic analysis mechanism finally takes effect this week.

Most bills emphasize ministerial approval, thus providing an end-run around the CEQA process.

Low-cost transformation of streets to public -- and restaurant -- spaces may help enliven city neighborhoods and revive their sales tax bases.

Lennar, labor negotiations fail, so City of Concord will look for another master developer for 13,000-home project.

With few traffic jams and clear skies, California's regional planning agencies strategize about how to keep remote work going after the COVID crisis is over.

Amid shifting shopping habits, a developer will transform the postmodern concrete fortress of Horton Plaza into a mixed-use technology campus to attract jobs to downtown San Diego.

The recent Vallco and Los Altos court decisions show that cities have to be very careful in handling SB 35 applications -- and can't rely on vague references to discretionary standards, as they have often done in the past.

Visual depictions of projects remain an issue -- though accessibility might actually be improved for some. Brown Act has been loosened for the duration of COVID-19.

At least $500 million in state and federal funds is available to help get planning departments past the COVID-19 financial crisis. More is likely on the way.

Even entitled buildings won't be built unless they have financing.