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But California backstop will maintain expansive definition of wetlands in the state.

The Regional Early Action Program has funded a lot of local planning for housing. But half of the REAP 2.0 money is being recalled.

ULI Los Angeles, in partnership with VerdeXchange , announces FutureBuild 2016 . This assembly of the land-use thinkers and innovators in business and government, local and worldwide, will be Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 7:30 am to 1:30 pm, at L.A. Downtown Hotel, 333 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071. 

The California Chapter of the American Planning Association presented 27 awards in 14 categories at the state conference last week

After the intensity of the last few election cycle — nationally and locally -- if ever there was an off-year election, November 7 was it.  

The county's request covers a wide range of topics, including SB 35, SB 330, the Density Bonus Law, and quick approval of accessory dwelling units. Local residents fear displacement as a result of the fire.

Nearly five million Californians live in high fire hazard severity zones, and the year’s disasters in Los Angeles County are only the most recent examples of just how severe California’s wildfires can be. For planners in the hundreds of cities and counties that touch on the wildlands-urban interface, fire hazard planning, via safety elements and other initiatives, is literally a life-or-death matter. Meanwhile, firefighting agencies face increasing urgency to fight and preven

The 682-unit project was declared exempt from CEQA and apparently met the city's objective design standards. The city council voted against it anyway.

City backed off of appeal after judge ordered that a $14 million bond be posted.

A pair of measures passed in Sausalito and the more ambitious of two housing measures passed in Santa Cruz

Proposed 2026 ballot measure would create two categories of projects: "essential projects" subject to tighter timelines and other projects subject to current law.

This year's CEQA reform will put more pressure on cities and counties to bulletproof their housing element EIRs. But it also creates a much "cleaner" exemption for infill housing than was previously available.