Methdological differences are not CEQA issues, court rules.

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Transit agencies say guidelines intended to encourage affordable housing may actually stifle affordable development.

First District says SB 35 doesn't interfere with local powers and trumps Berkeley's historic preservation law regarding the West Berkeley Shellmound.

Appellate court rejects all of a Malibu property owners arguments in dispute over a gate and structure located on a Coastal Conservancy easement.

Progressives who have long protected community power over developers are praising Biden's proposed new program, while Republicans are calling it a war on the suburbs.

The new database will help cities and counties with their environmental justice elements for their general plans, as required by SB 1000.

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Flat denial of blufftop house meant the "futility exception" was in play. Cost to the city: $3.4 million and counting.

Billion-dollar UC Davis project will be located adjacent to Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood. Residents have filed a CEQA lawsuit, while the city has committed 20% of EIFD money to affordable housing.

For Sacramento and Berkeley, the hard part is still coming: How to create a development code that will encourage rather than block other small-scale housing products.

The California Legislature has come roaring back in 2021 with a whole new set of bills affecting planning and development.

In the latest skirmish over Los Padres Del Mar -- 10 years after the city approved the project for the second time -- an appellate court has ruled that Pismo and the developer do not have to pay LAFCO's attorneys fees.

The council vote was unanimous, but now comes the hard part: Implementing an upzoning in a city with strong homeowner advocacy and fire-prone hillside neighborhoods.

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Except for two minor adjustments, all cities lose their appeals. Half of Orange County cities appealed.

Council has taken first vote, but it will be several more months at least before the new policy allowing up to four units on every parcel is formally adopted.

... There's no remedy in the law when a lead agency fails to notify an interested party, even though it's against the law.

In Marin City, a clever developer is building a project double the allowed size with very little parking and few other amenities -- and the county couldn't do anything to stop it.

Marin County is elite, but Marin City is not. Yet that's where the county's first SB 35 project is going.