Vol. 17 No. 03 Mar 2002
Lower Population Projections Could Reduce Housing Strain
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: otherPopulation projections beget households, households beget units and units beget Regional Housing Needs Assessments (RHNA) and those infamous housing elements.
Price: $2.95In Brief
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: otherHere is California Planning & Development Report's patent pending digest of this month's hottest news briefs about planning and development in the Golden State.
Price: $2.95Sacramento Tax-Sharing Bill Forces Regionalism Issue, But Opposition Holds Firm
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: William FultonPerhaps no legislative proposal in recent memory has cut closer to the bone of California’s state-local governance problems than AB 680, Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg’s proposal to create a tax-sharing system for metropolitan Sacramento.
Price: $2.95Housing, Bonds Top Lawmakers’ Priority Lists
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: otherConsensus may be rare in Sacramento, but nearly everyone agrees on one thing this year: proposals that cost money are doomed. Despite the lack of money — or maybe because there is no money — lawmakers could still pass a number of policy bills related to planning.
Price: $2.95Studies Examine State Business Strategies
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyDuring a recession, government efforts to boost the economy often gain higher profiles. Three recent studies of state economic development activities paint a mixed picture of the effectiveness of existing programs.
Price: $2.95San Mateo County Authority Over SFO Runway Expansion Made Clear
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: otherSan Mateo County must approve plans for expansion of San Francisco International Airport before the project is considered by a state panel that decides on development along San Francisco Bay, according to a state Attorney General’s opinion.
Price: $2.95Lancaster Buys A Costco Store
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: Morris Newman"L" was a young, slightly naive city of 122,000 people in the high desert. She loved her biggest retailer, Costco, very much and "L" vowed she would always be faithful to Costco, no matter the cost, no matter how much it hurt.
Price: $2.95New Tax Credit Program Saves Coastal Open Space
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: John KristCalifornia’s Revenue and Taxation Code contains provisions for all sorts of tax credits, most of them intended to encourage business or personal investment in activities deemed to have social value — creating jobs, saving energy, reducing waste, supporting charitable works.
Price: $2.95Resort Development Pressue Confronts High Sierra Valley
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyDevelopment pressure in the Martis Valley, just north of Lake Tahoe, is as great as anywhere in the high Sierra. Straddling the Placer and Nevada county line about 20 miles southwest of Reno, the area appears to be evolving into a high-end resort destination. Several thousand homes and vacation units are proposed in unincorporated Placer County and the Town of Truckee, as are at least half a dozen golf courses.
Price: $2.95Tiered EIR Thrown Out Because Higher Tier Invalid
1 March 2002 - 1:00am | Author: otherA tiered environmental impact report has been thrown out because the program EIR on which the tired document was based had been invalidated. The Second District Court of Appeal ruling came in a case involving the Castaic Lake Water Agency’s proposed purchase of water from Kern County to serve Newhall Ranch and other development in Los Angeles County’s Santa Clarita Valley.
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