With coronavirus-induced remote work cutting traffic and air pollution by dramatic levels, California’s regional planning agencies are laying plans to keep telecommuting at high levels once the pandemic has subsided. And the state may soon follow suit. "The entire State of Califo

California added only 87,494 residents in 2019 to bring the state's estimated total population to 39,782,870 people as of January 1.

When it opened in 1985, development of the Horton Plaza shopping mall in San Diego was hailed as a blueprint for how retail can revitalize a downtown area. The mall in its heyday attracted millions of shoppers to the city’s core with its unorthodox, multicolored and multi-pattern

The recent Vallco and Los Altos court decisions show that cities have to be very careful in handling SB 35 applications -- and can't rely on vague references to discretionary standards, as they have often done in the past.

Many armchair planners are trying to blame the virus crisis on density. Real planners shouldn't let them get away with it.

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

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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.