Council has taken first vote, but it will be several more months at least before the new policy allowing up to four units on every parcel is formally adopted. >>read more

The fast-tracked approval of a 74-unit affordable housing apartment complex in Marin City, an unincorporated community in Marin County, has again stoked concerns about loss of local control over housing developments approved under Senate Bill 35. Enacted in 2018, the bill allows

Throughout California and beyond, distant suburbs and resort towns are seeing a surge in population -- and home sales. But will the trend stick after the pandemic?

Housing accountability unit will help local governments but also keep an eye on them.

Also on the legislative docket: Bills to restrict development in wildfire areas.

The pandemic, racial injustice, an end to California's population growth -- has California planning ever seen a year like this before?

Someday a city on the San Francisco Peninsula will embrace growth. It will recognize the pressures of the Bay Area’s housing crisis and fully capitalize on the economic juggernaut of the region’s tech industry. Today is not that day. And the city is definitely not San Mateo. The

60% of Orange County cities challenge their targets, which are much higher than last time around.

In the 20 or so cities where growth and development was on the ballot, voters mostly sided with anti-development forces. San Diego and Monterey Park were the exceptions.

Already an epic-scale tragedy, California's wildfires--consuming a record 4 million acres this year--are effectively shrinking the amount of land available for housing and prompting planners to make tough choices between growth and safety.

Affordable housing, extension of vote requirements, several development projects all on ballots around the state.

Based on the new judges' dissent, an important San Francisco property "takings" case may be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.