California Forever, the parent company behind the East Solano Plan to build a new city of up to 400,000 residents on the northeastern edge of the Bay Area, reached an agreement with Solano County on a new process for advancing the plan

The city bought the theater to avoid sale to an evangelical church. That set up an explosion of litigation -- which the city is winning and the church is losing.

<p>A nearby office-building owner challenged the infill exemption on a condo project, claiming rare species were in the vicinity. In a case of dueling biologists, the Court of Appeal ruled that the species weren't rare enough to qualify.</p>

Attorney General Rob Bonta is appealing a Superior Court decision that halted the enforcement of Senate Bill 9 in charter cities

Insurance in wildfire areas is becoming harder to get -- which should be a good thing for the state's growth management policies. But it's getting in the way of meeting the state's housing targets.

The Department of Housing and Community Development has determined that the City and County of San Francisco missed its housing permitting goals in 2023

In case challenging Flower Growers high-rise proposal, court finds that city properly adopted Appendix G as its CEQA checklist.

Using a clever combination of local and state housing incentives, Costco is getting into the housing business in South Los Angeles.

The Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom have punched another hole in the California Environmental Quality Act – this time in order to move along construction of a new annex to the State Capitol in Sacramento.

HUD awarded $85 million in grants for the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing program. California jurisdictions received a total of $15 million and four of the 20 grants awarded nationwide

The state's environmental agencies may be insulated from the new ruling stripping federal administrative agencies of power -- and they're picking up the slack. But do they have the capacity and expertise to do the job?

CP&DR Vol. 39 No. 6 June 2024 Report