Vol. 21 No. 12 Dec 2006

Orange County has approved the "preliminary master plan" for Great Park and Gov. Schwarzenegger has renewed all 23 expiring Enterprise Zones. In El Dorado County, the revised EIR for a new Highway 50 freeway interchange has been upheld while the EIR for the Salton Sea offers 10 alternatives for the lake's future.

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A taxpayer lawsuit challenging the City of Seaside’s discounted sale of 105 acres of the closed Fort Ord military base to housing developers appears headed for trial.

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In one of the first published opinions upholding an environmental impact report’s water analysis, the Third District Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court’s ruling favoring opponents of a gravel mine proposed in Placer County.

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Two ballot measures approved by Santa Cruz voters in November appear to have further strained the already difficult relationship between the city and the University of California.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s determination that listing the Sierra Nevada Mountain yellow-legged frog as an endangered species was “warranted but precluded” has been rejected by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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It’s a little hard to make out the houses in aerial photographs of the 1997 flood in south Yuba County. Only after a minute or two do we realize that we are not looking at floating detritus, but at the rooftops of homes nearly submerged in the brown water.

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A state appellate court panel has chastised the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) for ignoring the California Environmental Quality Act during reviews of timber harvest plans.

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Proposition 90 may have lost, but it hasn’t gone away for good. It is likely to be back in 2008.

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If you asked the average person to name a city that has professional sports, big-name entertainment, acres of waterfront park and dozens of historic buildings, not many people would say Stockton. But, in spite of its reputation as a crime-ridden, working-class place, downtown Stockton has all of the above — and more is on the way.

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A dispute between owners of property in northern San Diego County and a public utility district is headed for a new trial after the Fourth District Court of Appeal overturned a $2.3 million award of damages and compensation to the property owners.

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