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ABAG Housing Plan Gets Smart

Apr 5, 2007

California, Featured Articles, Housing, Paul Shigley, Vol. 22 No. 02 Feb 2007

The Association of Bay Area Governments has adopted a methodology for distributing fair-share housing units that directs housing growth to existing urban areas, especially those with jobs and transit, and downplays the trend of extensive development on the Bay Area's fringe.

Monterey County Voters To Decide On Competing General Plans

by CP&DR Staff on Feb 1, 2007

Legislation, Monterey County, Vol. 22 No. 02 Feb 2007

Monterey County General Plan faces voter approval, a controversial Carmel Valley subdivision is back in court after EIR rejection 6 years ago, flood control in Sacramento continues to evolve, and dry cleaners in San Francisco pay for brownfeild clean up. >>read more

California City's Desert Redevelopment Invalidated

by CP&DR Staff on Feb 1, 2007

Vol. 22 No. 02 Feb 2007

A controversial desert redevelopment project in California City has been invalidated by the Fifth District Court of Appeal, which rejected the eastern Kern County city's determination that the vacant land qualified as blighted because of its parcelization and lack of road access. >>read more

Correction

Feb 1, 2007

Corrections, CP&DR Staff, Vol. 22 No. 02 Feb 2007

Correction. A story in the December edition regarding downtown Stockton contained two inaccuracies. Weber Point Event Center is 10 acres, not 17. Also, the 156 apartments for senior citizens on the upper floors of the Hotel Stockton have been filled since 2005.

Ongoing Operation Of Licensed Dam Doesn't Trigger Endangered Species Review, Court Rules

by CP&DR Staff on Feb 1, 2007

Vol. 22 No. 02 Feb 2007

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission does not have to consider impacts of previously licensed Butte County dams on threatened Chinook salmon, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. >>read more