Location, location, location. Those are the three most important factors in real estate, and — as evidenced late last month — in land use decision-making. On a 10-5 vote, the Los Angeles City Council on March 19 directed the Planning Department to stop processing the application

Do ya think that the California redevelopment crowd might be a little nervous? It sure seems that way, and here's why: • Under a state law passed in 1993, some of the oldest redevelopment project areas will have to start going out of business next year. • The state has a $16 bill

It looks like the 2009 Los Angeles mayoral race has begun. And it looks a lot like the 1989 race. In the role of an incumbent determined to bring L.A. to the next level as a "world city" – the Tom Bradley role -- is Antonio Villaraigosa. And in the role of a crusading neighborhoo

Don't miss Morris Newman, Senior Editor of California Planning & Development Report at the California Redevelopment Association's Annual Conference in Anaheim on March 26 . Morris will be participating in the panel on subprime mortgages and redevelopment Wednesday afternoon at 3:

Although it made no grand announcement, the California Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors has voted to oppose Proposition 98, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association's eminent domain initiative on the June ballot.

Add Tucson to the list of cities in the Intermountain West that fear California-style growth � and is thinking about California-style solutions to forestall California-style problems.

A hot potato — or should I say a hot sugar beet — is headed back to the Delta Protection Commission, which is scheduled on March 27 to reconsider a proposal for the first housing development within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's "primary zone" in 15 years. The hearing comes a

Will transportation and land-use planning get its share of dough from federal climate change programs? Not if the coal industry has its way. That was the message from a Capitol Hill staffer at a plenary session of the American Public Transit Association's annual legislative confe

Just about everyone has assumed that a "cap and trade" mechanism would be part of the implementation of California's AB 32, the greenhouse gas emissions reduction law. But cap and trade may not come about without a big, and potentially very political, fight from environmental jus

This is going to sound like sour grapes, I know. But it's not. Honest. It's a real policy beef – and one that I've had for a long time. I own a Prius. But I don't own an access sticker that gets me into the carpool lanes. That's because I bought my Prius in December of 2006 – the

State lawmakers introduced hundreds of bills just before the February 22 deadline, and many of them concern land use. At the time of the Legislature's deadline, we were putting together our big overview of land use legislation , so we were not able to look at every last bill. The

If you live in the Bay Area, where everybody thinks they are the coolest people on earth, or in Los Angeles, the world's biggest experiment in infill development, it's hard to swallow the idea that Sacramento may be ahead of us on planning. But it's true. Unlikely as it may the s