Many housing and land use bills made it out of the house of origin last week and are moving forward.

This article is brought to you courtesy of the paying subscribers to California Planning & Development Report. You can subscribe to CP&DR by clicking here. You can sign up for CP&DR’s free weekly newsletter here. Shortly after the election of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, he nominated Sarah Dennis Phillips to succeed Rich Hillis as planning director. Dennis Phillip was both a conventional choice and an offbeat. Offbeat, because she was coming from over a decade in the pri

The developer said the city kept stalling the builder's remedy application. The city sid the developer never actually proved a "disapproval".

Since 1956, KB Home built over 600,000 homes in California, from San Diego the Bay Area and many places in between. That’s more homes than are in many states.

Most of the 15 jurisdictions are located in the San Joaquin Valley. Many expressed surprise, saying they are actively going back and forth with HCD on their housing elements.

The Road To Housing Act would tie CDBG to pro-housing policies and production

New housing laws have shifted their responsibility from the project level to the plan level.

When it's an in-lieu fee for affordable housing.

Bill moving forward would clarify that Amtrak service should be included when calculating qualifying service

An attempt to challenge the Density Bonus Law and L.A.'s ED1 in federal court on constitutional grounds failed.

A case which says a city can delegate final approval of its housing element to the city manager -- and not hold a final approval -- has been published by the Fourth District Court of Appeal.

Judge rejects several arguments and tells the city to adopt a housing element by September.