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Santa Barbara's charms, and challenges, will be on full display this week at the conference of the American Planning Association's California chapter, says Community Development Director George Buell.

What will he sign?

In Dana Point case, appellate court rules that three residences housing people involved in a drug treatment program are not exempt from the municipal code.

Challenge to implementation of Del Mar's Scenic View Ordinance fails because plaintiff served city too late in the process.

HCD assigned SCAG a far more aggressive housing target than it had asked for: 1,344,770.

Death of BART extension has forced the East Bay city to rethink how it is going to grow -- and plan around Valley Link instead.

Maybe if we made our neighborhoods more walkable and livable, we wouldn't want to increase our carbon footprint by flying to Europe all the time.

Berryessa Station area just northeast of Downtown San Jose is currently home to a flea market, but single ownership makes master-planning possible.

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Yet another setback for Millenium Hollywood project arises from flexible development potential on project's site as approved by City of Los Angeles.

Calfornia's system of habitat conservation planning may be strong enough to withstand the federal government's attack on the Endangered Species Act.

But justices don't let San Diego completely off the hook on bypassing CEQA in adopting marijuana dispensary ordinance.

Author, architect, and professor Vishaan Chakrabarty will influence a new generation of California planners as dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.

Especially in Bay Area, districts look at landholdings and see potential to provide housing for teachers.

New leadership seeks to revamp embattled Regional Transportation Plan for the San Diego Association of Governments -- and it could have statewide implications for SB375 planning

Mountain town of Truckee will double the size of its downtown, redeveloping a railyard -- while keeping an active train

A vacant Hollywood apartment building can't be analyzed as if it were still occupied, court rules.

Appellate court concludes that subdivision was just a residential development in disguise and therefore in violation of the Williamson Act.

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