Housing accountability unit will help local governments but also keep an eye on them.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new National Risk Index has calculated that Los Angles is the county most in danger for natural disaster.

Appellate court says citizen group can proceed with Brown Act lawsuit against ABAG regarding CASA Compact approval.

Appellate court overturns decision favoring Department of Finance.

Also on the legislative docket: Bills to restrict development in wildfire areas.

Facebook is in talks with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing.

Bill and Josh discuss CP&DR's most popular stories of the year.

The property owners undertook a major renovation -- apparently beyond what the Coastal Development Permit allowed -- with city permits but without out telling the Coastal Commission.

CP&DR Vol. 35 No. 12 December 2020

The Trump administration finalized its adoption of a regulatory definition of “habitat" for purposes of species protection.

The pandemic, racial injustice, an end to California's population growth -- has California planning ever seen a year like this before?

Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Robert Rivas co-introduced legislation that would allow local governments to upzone neighborhoods.