In a case a month ago involving the Obama Presidential Center, she rejected citizen activists' very expansive claims of a taking of property under the Fifth Amendment.

An otherwise unassuming apartment project that became a symbol of California’s housing crisis may finally move forward, nine years after its initial proposal. The Lafayette City Council has voted to approve the Terraces at Lafayette , an apartment complex planned for 22 acres in

City says it fears losing $7 million bond if appeal fails. Permit for 5-story project should be approved this week.

SB 1120, the duplex bill, almost passed but ran out of time. None of the five bills proposed last spring by Senate leader Toni Atkins made it to the governor.

In 2002, civic leaders in the San Fernando Valley famously sought to secede, via ballot measure, from the City of Los Angeles. Had they succeeded, they would have created one of the top-ten most populous cities in the United States—and the only one without a downtown. That effort

SB 1120, which would ease duplex zoning and lot splits, is the most important land use/housing bill still likely to pass.

OPR issues guidelines for implementing SB 1000, which requires local governments to address EJ directly in planning for the first time.

After messy hearing in the Assembly Local Government Committee, other bills in the Senate housing package move forward as legislature faces month-end deadline.

Only 29 jurisdictions statewide are completely exempt from the new law -- including several small affluent cities.

San Francisco is known for agonizing battles over infill development despite the obvious demand for new housing. But, with a rare brownfield site, stakeholders seem to have buried the hatchet to support housing in a place that everyone agrees makes sense. For over a century, the

New traffic analysis mechanism finally takes effect this week.

Most bills emphasize ministerial approval, thus providing an end-run around the CEQA process.