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.

Low-cost transformation of streets to public -- and restaurant -- spaces may help enliven city neighborhoods and revive their sales tax bases.

From 1942 to 2007, the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a two-site 13,000-acre facility in and around the Contra Costa County suburb of Concord, played a significant role in post-World War II national defense. Since its decommissioning in 2007, the base has been the subject of a ne

With coronavirus-induced remote work cutting traffic and air pollution by dramatic levels, California’s regional planning agencies are laying plans to keep telecommuting at high levels once the pandemic has subsided. And the state may soon follow suit. "The entire State of Califo

When it opened in 1985, development of the Horton Plaza shopping mall in San Diego was hailed as a blueprint for how retail can revitalize a downtown area. The mall in its heyday attracted millions of shoppers to the city’s core with its unorthodox, multicolored and multi-pattern

The recent Vallco and Los Altos court decisions show that cities have to be very careful in handling SB 35 applications -- and can't rely on vague references to discretionary standards, as they have often done in the past.

Visual depictions of projects remain an issue -- though accessibility might actually be improved for some. Brown Act has been loosened for the duration of COVID-19.

As sales and hotel bed tax revenues crater throughout California because of the COVID-19 shutdown, local governments and their planning departments are facing an almost-unprecedented budget shortfalls . Already, cities and counties throughout the state are taking an axe to their

Even entitled buildings won't be built unless they have financing.

California’s local governments have already been struggling to move their planning processes online – a difficult trick given that many planning projects require approval of appointed or elected officials at in-person meetings. But now, cities and counties are about to face an ev