<p>If it includes a disposition and development agreement with a specific development program, the answer is yes, according to a San Diego judge.</p>

Local governments, property owners, and environmental justice advocates all have issues with AB 98. It could invite more litigation over warehouses.

California wildlife officials have designated the Western burrowing owl as a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act

Six months after it came, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Sheetz case is beginning to have an impact on land use planning in California. But – typical of Supreme Court rulings these days – Sheetz leaves a lot of question unanswered and practicing planners and land use lawyers are still wondering, or maybe hoping, that future court rulings will clarify things.

A recent Superior Court ruling requires a developer to pause construction on a contentious warehouse project in San Bernardino County

Appellate court rules that bill exempting project from CEQA does not violate state constitution. Preservationists made the unsuccessful argument that the state cannot be trusted to implement the law constitutionally.

Populations change even if they don't grow. That's why California needs more housing even though the population is stagnant.

Governor Gavin Newsom called out Norwalk's recent decision to extend its ban on new homeless shelters, and the state has imposed the "builder's remedy"

Cities are moving aggressively to adopt objective design standards, now required in reviewing housing projects. But developers can use the Density Bonus Law to end-run some of the standards.

Altogether the governor signed more than 40 planning and development bills, vetoing only one bill designed to encourage conversion of old office buildings to housing, apparently because off the labor standards contained in the bill.

The Bay Area introduced its first plan to address the challenges of sea-level rise, which could lead to severe flooding and infrastructure damage

CP&DR Vol. 39 No. 9 September 2024 Report