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.

Self-storage facilities, which often include blank streetfronts and generate essentially zero pedestrian activity, are not exactly ideal uses in dense urban areas. But, in a bid to expand an existing facility, Public Storage offered up an unorthodox public benefit the City of Mou

Southern California and Bay Area MPOs must get more aggressive to meet RHNA goals and SB 375 goals.

Most involve incremental change, however, as major zoning reform bills all failed.