Census data shows that Blacks are leaving the metropolitan core for the periphery -- but it's less clear whether white gentrification is the reason. >>read more

CP&DR webinar highlights nuts-and-bolts of how cities will deal with eliminating single-family zoning. The panel was co-sponsored by the Terner Center and California APA. >>read more

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

The preliminary draft of the Downtown Oakland Specific Plan includes the creation of up to 29,000 new housing units by 2040 and at least 50,000 new jobs >>read more

LPPI found that the surrounding community remained stable and economically prosperous in the decade following the development of Fruitvale Transit Vilage in East Oakland >>read more

More than 100 jurisdictions are thought to be crafting regulations for all aspects of the industry >>read more

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

A Q&A with Nelson/Nygaard's Jeff Tumlin, who is serving as the city's interim transportation director. >>read more

Oakland can't retroactively apply CUP in crematorium case. >>read more

Following the announcement two weeks ago of the finalists for $120 million worth of grants through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities grant program, two metropolitan planning organizations in southern California are calling foul. The five-county region covered by the Southern California Association of Governments, by far the largest metropolitan planning organization in the state, had only 12 of 54 finalists. By contrast, Alameda County alone had eight finalists. >>read more