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Election Activity Focuses on Bay Area; Only One Measure on Ballot in Southern California

Jul 1, 1998

Featured Articles, Larry Sokoloff, Vol. 13 No. 07 Jul 1998

The June 1998 election featured only eight land use and environmental measures throughout the state, the lowest since 1986 according to a CP&DR analysis of election returns. Seven of the eight measures were on the ballot in Northern California cities and counties. In the only Southern California ballot measure, voters in San Diego overwhelmingly approved a measure to finance a $216 million expansion of the city's convention center. That expansion had been fought by opponents of downtown redevelopment,...

Twenty Years of Proposition 13; Tax-Cutting Initiative Shaped Planning and development in State

Jun 1, 1998

Featured Articles, Vol. 13 No. 06 Jun 1998, William Fulton

It is not too much of an overstatement to suggest that the California planning and development landscape as we know it today was created by Proposition 13 when it was passed by the voters 20 years ago this month. Prop. 13 didn't invent most of the impulses at work in California's communities today, of course. Fiscal zoning and competition between municipalities for tax revenue is nothing new. Neither is the vigorous political jockeying within any community over who pays for new growth, nor the sl...

More Developers File Suit to Stop Citizen Protest

Nov 1, 1990

CP&DR Staff, Featured Articles, Vol. 05 No. 11 Nov 1990

In increasing numbers, developers throughout the state are suing citizen groups -- and individual citizens -- who oppose their projects. But most of these so-called "SLAPP" lawsuits seem to be failing, and some have even backfired as citizens have countersued against the developers. In increasing numbers, developers throughout the state are suing citizen groups -- and individual citizens -- who oppose their projects. But most of these so-called "SLAPP" lawsuits seem to be failing, and some have even backfired as citizens have countersued against the developers.