As cities around the state are still stinging from the state's decision to deny many of their 240 redevelopment appeals, redevelopment skirmishes still continue around the state -- often about affordable housing projects that cities claim are nearing completion. Here's a sampling

Approximately one-third of new housing units constructed in California's metropolitan counties between 2000 and 2009 were built in infill locations, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency .

There's been a lot of redevelopment news around the state this week: DOF at your service: Santa Barbara ordered to sell parking lots and train depot . Modesto can't use redevelopment funds to pay off bonds for downtown projects .

Exploiting a subtle difference between AB 32 and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2005 Executive Order that preceded the bill, environmentalists have successfully persuaded a San Diego Superior Court judge to strike down the environmental impact report for the sustainable communities

Now that Ray LaHood has finally announced he is stepping down as President Obama's Secretary of Transportation, speculation has immediately focused on whether outgoing L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will succeed him.

Wendell Cox, my favorite anti-anti-sprawl researcher, is at it again. This time, he's on New Geography , taking on the oft-quoted forecast of Southern California's future housing market by Professor Arthur C. Nelson of the University of Utah, which found that future demand will b

With the demise of redevelopment in California, one idea put forth -- by me , among others -- is using publicly owned land as equity in a real estate deal as a way of subsidizing it. If you can't "write down" private land (selling it to a developer for less than your bought it),

Here's CP&DR 's roundup of recent events around the state regarding the redevelopment wind-down. Just click on the headline to read more -- sometimes from us, sometimes from other sources. West Sac passes Chiang's test, Hercules struggles, Morgan Hill sues CP&DR

If skepticism about growth is an indication that the economy is on the rebound, then Tuesday's land use elections throughout California might be called good news. About a dozen land use measures were on the ballot Tuesday and most cases the anti-growth forces won. Most of those t

Everybody in Northern California is proud of the World Champion Giants., but apparently the 49ers are a different story. The Department of Finance beancounters in Sacramento have nixed a negotiated agreement between the City of Santa Clara and other taxing agencies that would hav

Last week, I posted a blog from the American Planning Association, California Chapter, conference suggesting that the new guidelines to implement the streamlining of environmental review for infill projects under SB 226 might be making the whole process even more complicated. Rel

Though painful, the unwinding of redevelopment would seem to be a pretty straightforward process for most cities: Designate yourself as the successor agency, negotiate with your oversight committee to keep as much stuff going as possible, and try to keep the state Department of F