Impediments remain -- but experts say neither engineering nor financing are the problems in reclaiming urban land.

The environmental review law often runs along a completely separate track from planning and policy processes -- thus causing a lot of confusion.

Justiecs overturn lower court but can't say what adequate GHG analysis would be in the future.

In a blow to the Pacific Legal Foundation, the California Supreme Court rules that Encinitas landowners can't simultaneously sue and build.

Restricting chain stores via initiative isn't as easy as it looks.

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Cities support bill to streamline environmental review on plans, while advocates want state override of local decisions.

Case from Wisconsin is based on quirky facts -- just like practically every takings case the Supreme Court deals with.

The Fort Ord Regional Urban Design Guidelines, adopted last year by the Ford Ord Base Reuse Authority, attempts to usher in appropriate development for the 28,000-acre site.

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The new transportation package is great -- but the state should acknowledge that the two issues are linked.

In a new case from San Diego, the Fourth District says yes, overturning a judge who overturned the City Council.

Struggling "downtown" district could be revived with tribal facility.

Revised project on campus was a modification -- not a new project -- but First District rules that supplemental EIR was not sufficient.

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Hemet's new downtown plan follows the city’s 2012 general plan, which calls for "mixed use higher intensity environments that offer opportunities for people to live, work and shop within a compact area.”

Appellate court overturns trial judge's ruling blocking Mission Beach structure.

Coronado bungalow was declared historic even though similar houses weren't, but appellate court says that's the city's decision.

The following is a selection of the largest master planed communities currently underway in California. See accompanying story, Post-Recession, Master Planned Communities Come Back to Life.