A Santa Clara Superior Court found Los Altos violated SB 35 when the city denied a 15-unit development proposal.

CP&DR Vol. 33 No. 4 April 2018

CP&DR Vol. 35 No. 4 April 2020

Many elements of great, but forbidden, urbanism are on display in a bygone version of Los Angeles.

Even if stay-at-home orders are lifted by June 1, California cities will lose at least $6.7 billion over the next two years

Visual depictions of projects remain an issue -- though accessibility might actually be improved for some. Brown Act has been loosened for the duration of COVID-19.

Well, it took COVID-19 to knock the housing crisis off the front page of California’s newspapers. Or, maybe more to the point, COVID-19 has caused coverage of the housing crisis to morph into additional coverage of the virus, with a focus not on NIMBY v. YIMBY but on housing the homeless, banning evictions, and desperate families squatting in vacant houses.

California's iconic Joshua tree is a step closer to permanent protected status after securing a recommendation from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife

As sales and hotel bed tax revenues crater throughout California because of the COVID-19 shutdown, local governments and their planning departments are facing an almost-unprecedented budget shortfalls . Already, cities and counties throughout the state are taking an axe to their

Bill Fulton and Josh Stephens discuss this week's planning news, including effects of COVID19 pandemic on housing production and planning departments' budgets

In an oil refinery case, a split appellate court said using 98th percentile instead of "average" pollution is okay.

The state Judicial Council issued new rules designed to halt evictions and foreclosures for court cases in California for the duration of Gov. Newsom’s emergency shelter-in-place orders