Many housing and land use bills made it out of the house of origin last week and are moving forward.

Postentitlement shot clocks are moving forward. So far, allowing overlays in housing elements is not.

Monterey Park, Contra Costa County, and Davis are all seeking to manage land use with ballot measures this June

The project qualifies as residential and the Density Bonus Law can be used to set aside the height limit. Voters have eliminated the height limit twice only to be stymied by CEQA lawsuits.

Some cities want the tax revenue. Others are using the same strategy for shutting down data centers that they are using on warehouses.

Most of the 15 jurisdictions are located in the San Joaquin Valley. Many expressed surprise, saying they are actively going back and forth with HCD on their housing elements.

The city chose the least aggressive of three options in seeking to forestall SB 79 implementation until 2030.

SB 79 goes into effect July 1, bringing massive upzoning that could, at full build-out, more than double the populations of many cities.

The Road To Housing Act would tie CDBG to pro-housing policies and production

Bill moving forward would clarify that Amtrak service should be included when calculating qualifying service

As the global economy has wobbled in the face of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, the California logistics industry has followed suit. The promise of jobs and economic development has pushed jurisdictions to embrace warehouses by the millions of square feet -- totaling over 1.17 billion square feet of warehouse space in southern Calfornia alone.

Seemingly since the invention of the elevator, critics of growth in California have warned of “Manhattanization,” as if the adoption of liberal zoning policies could instantly result in a thicket of high-density towers. Thus far, that fate has not befallen any cities. But due to a recent confluence of new laws and economic conditions, high-rises are being proposed, approved, and built in some unusual places.