Jan Sramek, founder and CEO of California Forever, revealed a new vision for the company's proposed "new city" in Solano County

Appellate court rules that county can't condition permit completeness on additional environmental information not on the checklist -- but can do so if the checklist is more complete.

The Wiener bill, which squeaked through the Senate last week, would effectively take away land use authority from local governments -- and hand it to transit agencies, at least for the land they own. It's maybe Wiener's most aggressive bill yet -- but he has shown a willingness t

Environmentalists, unions force Wiener to back off of SB 607. It's unclear what the final bill will look like.

The Orange County Superior Court has granted the Newsom administration and Attorney General Bonta permission to file amicus briefs supporting the City of Newport Beach

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling involving the National Environmental Policy Act does not directly affect California’s environmental review process. But the NEPA ruling is likely, some lawyers say, to expand the gulf between NEPA and the California Environmental Quality Act.

CP&DR Vol. 40 No. 5 May 2025 Report

For the past century or so, two industries have both fueled Los Angeles’s local economy and defined its civic image: Hollywood and real estate. Now that both are faltering, it's worth thinking about their communalities -- and their woeful

Los Angeles County has introduced a pilot initiative allowing licensed architects and engineers to self-certify that their building plans comply with county codes

LCI would set mitigation fees and funds would likely to become another state source of affordable housing money.

13 bills are included. Two would permit tax-increment-style financing and entitlement incentives for adaptive reuse and commercial-to-industrial conversations. Those bills are already in the Senate.

Mt. Shasta charter school case shows that subjective design standards still matter and the threshold for an environmental impact report is low -- at least for non-residential projects.