Administration's menu of policy options for housing development contains many familiar ideas.

New LAX plan focuses on terra firma, not on getting people into the air. 

Papers on "Vibrant Communities" & VMT reduction hint at state policy direction. >>read more

No artist has ever depicted Los Angeles like Ed Ruscha. It's worth a trip to San Francisco to see the de Young's retrospective. 

The proposed Village at Squaw Valley would transform the mountain’s currently threadbare base area into a multi-use destination. 

Delays in city approval triggered legal fight between landowner and developer. >> read more

CP&DR Contributing Editor Josh Stephens

Editor & Publisher WILLIAM FULTON

Governor's executive order might change the game if SANDAG loses pending California Supreme Court lawsuit.

Standing only a few feet above sea level on San Francisco Bay’s Treasure Island, Gov. Schwarzenegger released the California Climate Adaptation Strategy in early December. The final version of the 200-page strategy is not significantly different from the draft version that drew criticism from environmentalists for not going far enough, and from business and development interests for going way too far. 

The City of Irvine has agreed to pay the neighboring City of Newport Beach $3.65 million to settle a lawsuit over Irvine’s approval of a mixed-use plan for 2,760 acres. The Irvine Business Complex plan seeks to bring as many as 15,000 housing units in mixed-use developments to an area near John Wayne Airport that is currently dominated by office buildings and industrial parks. 

With concern rising that a private entity may attempt to purchase the Orange County Fairgrounds for development purposes, public officials are hurrying to put together bids of their own for the 150-acre site just west of the Costa Mesa Freeway.