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It's been on the books for 30 years but hardly used. As the Santa Monica situation suggests, however, it could completely upend local planning for housing in California.

Local governments must put together a report each year on progress toward housing goals. The state uses them to monitor the locals. But can locals use this information to their advantage too?

The two laws provide developers with different paths for developing housing on commercial land where local zoning doesn't permit residential units.

The Santee City Council rescinded the project's approvals, took a referendum off the ballot, and reapproved the project under an urgency ordinance not subject to referendum.

Nobody expected 2022 to be a big year for housing production laws in Sacramento. But everybody was wrong.

The state's MPOs will be sitting large amounts of cash to implement sustainable communities strategies -- a boon to local governments and planning consultants alike.

Was Stanford the right place for John Doerr to park $1 billion for climate change? For that matter, are technological solutions the answer at all?

In the first half of the 20th century, Beach Boulevard served day trippers traveling from inland Orange County to Huntington Beach, earning it the nickname “The Road to Summer.” Even today, most drivers are likely to want to get through the boulevard as quickly as possible, bypas

Mootness ruling in CEQA case doesn't prevent challenge to business license.

But small housing amount disappoints advocates.

Transportation bond fails in San Francisco, while Santa Cruz voters apparently favor rails over trails. Meanwhile, Chino voters approved a housing element update.

In preparing the new edition of  Guide to California Plannin g , it became more clear to me than ever that there's tension between the urban California we live in and the suburban California the planning system is designed to create.