This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Bay Area Voters to Decide Fate of Regionwide Transit Funding The Connect Bay Area transit funding measure will officially appear on the November 2026 ballot after election the campaign collected 305,000 signatures, nearly doubling the required 186,000. The tax measur

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the Upper Westside development, clearing the way for a roughly 2,000-acre community

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Prior to Implementing Alternative Plan, Palo Alto Beset with SB 79 Applications The City of Palo Alto, which has historically favored slow growth, adopted an alternative plan pursuant to Senate Bill 79 that went into effect two weeks after the law’s July 1 effective

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Developer Proposes Building Data Centers on Fairgrounds Statewide Global Stack LLC, a California infrastructure company, has proposed building data centers, multilevel parking garages, and helicopter landing pads on state land generally used as fairgrounds. The comp

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. American Canyon Annexation Spurs Lawsuit from Developer A Watson Ranch project developer has sued in Napa Superior Court to block a proposed 281-acre expansion of American Canyon's city boundary, arguing it violates a 2008 voter-approved measure barring urban limit l

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Ballot Measure to Curb Local Special Taxes Pulled; Los Angeles ‘Mansion Tax’ Remains Intact After talks of rolling back Los Angeles’ “mansion tax”, the Los Angeles City Council pulled a plan to reform the measure from the November ballot -- which would have exempted

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Imperial County Enacts Moratorium on Data Centers On a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, Imperial County will impose a 45-day moratorium on pending and future data center projects, despite three months ago advancing plans for the largest data center in Cali

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Los Angeles to Delay Implementation of SB 79; Adopts “Low-Rise” Substitute Los Angeles will implement a “Low-Rise Ordinance” that will allow up to four-story residential buildings in 57 transit-adjacent neighborhoods, delaying full implementation of California’s SB 7

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Sonoma County Plan Attempts to Bolster Agriculture Industry The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved an action plan aimed at strengthening the agriculture industry in collaboration among county agencies including the Agricultural Preservation and Open Space Di

Voters obliterate data center proposal in Monterey Park. Uphold status quo in San Diego, Davis, and Contra Costa County.

An agreement between the US Navy and New York-based developer Brookfield Properties to redevelop the 12,800-acre abandoned Concord Naval Weapons Station into 12,272 housing units, parkland and other facilities gained unanimous approval by the Concord City Council

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Developer Proposes 3.91 Million Square Feet for L.A. Area Oil Refinery Catellus-Deca, LLC on behalf of Phillips 66, has filed an application to redevelop the century-old decommissioned Phillips 66 refinery site in the Los Angeles County city of Carson after months of