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Repealing a zoning ordinances doesn't create an inconsistency with the general plan because it "doesn't enact anything".

The frame is different, but Jerry Brown is using climate change to pursue the same goals he laid out in the 1970s.

Two Wiener followups to SB 35 lead the pack.

In the latest urban decay case, an appellate court reinforces an earlier ruling to say that substantial evidence must involved more than merely an expert's "conjecture"

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Acknowledging that the massive project will eventually be construct, most environmental groups agree to strike a deal. But there's still one holdout.

Appellate court overrules lower court in Gold Line Extension case.

Attorney General can raise issues in court that aren't in an EIR's administrative record, appellate court rules.

Related California wasn't a party to a contract among Anaheim agencies to shuffle affordable housing money -- but the developer's third-party status doesn't matter.

The housing-focused state senator says the politics of housing have flipped and he's willing to take the heat.

Cities need fiscal incentives to approve more housing.

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Counties are putting more structures in harm's way in wildfires. And nobody wants to pay for it.

Appellate court finds CEQA lawyer Cory Briggs engaged in "a calculated attempt to delay" discovery and deposition.

Ontario's redevelopment agency did a deal with a medical supply company. Fontana, San Bernardino, and Lathrop were losers in the process.

The California Planning & Development Report's annual roundup of its most popular articles of the year

VMT will soon replace LOS as standard traffic analysis tool

Planners thought strategy to protecting wetlands and promoting development was good enough -- but enviros thought otherwise. 

State Parks EIR overturned because five alternatives were proposed -- but none designated as preferred.