Updated Thursday morning. Yesterday the Senate and Assembly considered AB 101, which is the budget bill that includes the provisions to eliminate redevelopment, per Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal. AB 101 fell one vote short in the Assembly. It had passed the Senate Budget Committee,

The California Assembly and Senate are expected to vote on the budget proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The trailer bill concerning redevelopment, AB 101 , emerged from committee today. If enacted, it would codify the dissolution of redevelopment agencies and the winding down of thei

After weeks of stalemate and tough talk -- on both sides -- the California Redevlopment Association has announced an alternative to Gov. Jerry Brown's intention to eliminate redevelopment. The CRA announced today a compromise plan that would preserve the architecture of redevelop

As of Wednesday afternoon, March 9, here are the following results from local elections related to land use in California: Beverly Hills Measure 2P - Approved; Measure 3P - Rejected 2P Two Hours of Free Parking Initiative; approved, 3,168-1,963 3P Three Hours of Free Parking for

The debate over the fate of redevelopment has called into question the usefulness of redevelopment in places such as, say, Coronado or Palm Desert. But there is no doubt that blight still infects large swaths of the state's major cities -- and that those cities are deeply concern

As expected, supporters of redevelopment in California wasted no time responding to a scathing report released today by State Controller John Chiang. This afternoon California Redevelopment Association re-iterated its longstanding contention that redevelopment creates jobs, stoke

Throughout the now eight-week battle over the fate of redevelopment, both sides have issued claims about the efficacy -- or lack thereof -- of redevelopment but have relied on scant data to do so. Today the empirical analysis of redevelopment has, according to the office of State

With apologies to Sir Isaac Newton, we may finally find out what happens when an irresistible force runs headlong into an immovable object.

The following is the first of an occasional series of thoughts on "super density" and the future of cities.

Poor George Will. He's getting kicked all over the blogosphere for a recent Newsweek column in which he said liberals love trains because they are a way to control the masses, while conservatives love cars because they provide freedom.

What happens when you go through years of planning and actually building TODs, only to have the T suddenly vanish? This is the question on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the South Bay, where Caltrain is proposing radical service reductions and the closure of numerous stations

As debates and hearings over the fate of redevelopment have raged on, the Governor's Office has been drafting legislation that would eliminate redevelopment much as the governor has proposed. A strongly worded preamble lays out the case for the governor's position, and, in antici