Legislation
Creative Bills Offered For Local Infrastructure Finance
1 February 2008 - 12:14pm | Author: CP&DR Staff
This could become a year of creative financing, and not merely for the state government. Lawmakers are considering at least three bills that could change the rules for financing local infrastructure.
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Price: $2.95Cities Protect Industrial Lands
29 October 2007 - 1:17pm | Author: Paul Shigley
In the face of never-ending demand for housing and concerns about eroding the job base, some cities are imposing regulations to protect their industrial lands.Price: $2.95 » read more | add to cart
Price: $2.95Governor Vetoes 'Green' Building Standards, Other Land Use Bills
17 October 2007 - 5:34pm | Author: Paul ShigleyThree bills that would have established “green” building standards for housing, commercial structures and state government buildings were vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor also vetoed a controversial planning bill that would have limited cities’ ability to satisfy regional fair-share mandates with non-residentially zoned properties.
Price: $2.95Lawmakers Approve Flood Measures
24 September 2007 - 12:41pm | Author: Paul ShigleyWhat a difference a year can make.
During the final days of the 2006 legislative session, a package of bills intended to force better coordination between flood control and land use planning in the Central Valley and Bay Delta region died amid a deluge of acrimony. This year, however, state lawmakers approved six bills similar to measures that failed last year.
Price: $2.95Lawsuits Filed Over Housing Allocations
29 August 2007 - 2:17pm | Author: Paul Shigley
The fight over fair-share allocations of needed housing within the Southern California Association of Governments region is on. At least two cities have filed lawsuits and numerous others are reportedly considering their legal and political options.Price: $2.95 » read more | add to cart
Price: $2.95State Budget Deal Includes CEQA Compromise
22 August 2007 - 11:51am | Author: CP&DR StaffIn passing the state budget on Tuesday, the Legislature agreed to begin resolving issues associated with the California Environmental Quality Act and global warming.
Price: $2.95Regional Planning Bill Advances
1 August 2007 - 10:36am | Author: Paul Shigley
A bill tying all local transportation projects to a regional “preferred growth scenario” that reduces automobile travel is quickly becoming the most important land use proposal of recent years in Sacramento.Price: $2.95 » read more | add to cart
Price: $2.95Global Warming Becomes CEQA Issue
2 July 2007 - 9:48am | Author: Paul Shigley
Like a blast of hot air from the Santa Ana winds of fall, the push to address global warming in environmental impact reports has come on suddenly and with surprising intensity.Price: $2.95 » read more | add to cart
Price: $2.95Homeownership Programs Prove Tricky
3 May 2007 - 3:26pm | Author: Paul ShigleyAs the popularity of inclusionary zoning for affordable housing has grown, so has the number of cities and counties who have a stake in affordable homeownership problems. Experts in those programs, however, warn that they are fraught with dangers and require extensive monitoring to ensure that units remain affordable.
Price: $2.95State Supreme Court Emerges As CEQA Enforcer
1 March 2007 - 1:00am | Author: Paul ShigleyIn issuing its second California Environmental Quality Act ruling in seven months, the conservative-leaning California Supreme Court is emerging as one of CEQA’s staunchest defenders. The latest decision — the rejection of an environmental impact report’s water analysis for a large Sacramento-area housing project — is the court’s first foray into such water studies, and the court appears to have set a high standard.
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