The San Diego City Council rejected Mayor Todd Gloria's Housing Action Package 2.0, initially perceived as uncontroversial

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has issued Executive Directive 7, which aims to reassess the city's site plan review process for market-rate housing developments with 50 or more net new units

Mountain House, a new master-planned community west of Tracy in San Joaquin County, will become the county's incorporated eighth city if voters approve in March 2024

A yearlong investigation by state housing officials reveals that San Francisco's housing approval process is excessively long and violates housing laws

UC Berkeley is partnering with NASA and real estate developer SKS Partners to develop a 36-acre research park in the Mountain View area

The Fresno City Council granted a key developer exemption for his planned 71-home development from a community facilities district tax.

The State Water Resources Control Board released a nearly 6,000-page draft to update the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan

The San Diego Association of Governments has committed to exclude a regional road user charge, or "mileage tax," from its 30-year planning documents

The Attorney General's Office released comprehensive guidance for local governments to address environmental justice 

The California Chapter of the American Planning Association presented the following awards at its annual conference in Fresno last week

The Coastal Commission unanimously approved a significant settlement with San Diego's Paradise Point resort, addressing Coastal Act violations that hindered public access to city-owned waterfront

The (likely) departing Oakland A’s turned down an offer from a local Black-owned development group to purchase their share of the Oakland Coliseum site

The City of Concord selected Brookfield Properties as the master developer for the transformation of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station into a massive mixed-use community

Over the past five years, a company called Flannery Associates has been acquiring over $800 million of open and agricultural land near Fairfield in Solano County, with apparent ambitions to build a new city.