Settling a court battle, downtown San Diego’s semi-independent planning agency, Civic San Diego , will lose much of its authority

Cities can't stop telecommunication facilities from using the public way, but they can regulate what they look like and where they are.

Court says lack of additional environmental impacts are irrelevant in non-conforming situation

Water influences urban planning only in the broadest sense. It doesn’t tell us where to build or in what configuration. But it determines how many of us can live here. The Colorado River is the biggest determinant of the all.

Their jurisdictions are different. But their problems are pretty similar -- especially on housing.

SB 743 regulations are the highest of the latest update, six years in the making.

The American Planning Association included six California projects among its national award recipients for 2019

Amid rapid changes in the Bay Area and, especially, the increase in housing costs regionwide, the City of Oakland is looking to an updated downtown plan to keep the city both diverse and affordable. The preliminary draft of the Downtown Oakland Specific Plan, released in January,

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The Southern California Association of Governments has identified a 4.3-square-mile are of West Los Angeles as the possible location of the state's first congestion pricing scheme

A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study found that residents in rural counties like Kern in San Joaquin Valley suffer from the poorest health statewide

CP&DR Vol. 34 No. 3 March 2019