CP&DR's retrospective of the triumphs, failures, and tensions that influenced California's built environment in the 2010s >>read more

City of Merced finds itself increasingly caught between two worlds: that of the traditional agricultural economy of the Central Valley, the knowledge-based economy of higher education >>read more

After two decades of negotiation, the new master-planned town of Centennial has been cleared for 12,323 acres of the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch >> read more

The California Planning & Development Report's annual roundup of its most popular articles of the year >>read more

After weeks of anticipation and intra-chamber lobbying in Sacramento, a suite of bills aimed at alleviating California’s housing crisis passed the Assembly yesterday. >>read more

The Fort Ord Regional Urban Design Guidelines, adopted last year by the Ford Ord Base Reuse Authority, attempts to usher in appropriate development for the 28,000-acre site >>read more

Proposition 64 affirms that localities have significant discretion to decide whether and how to allow cannabis-related business activities, including cultivation, processing, and retail sales. >>read more

Manhattan Beach wants to be the opposite of its namesake. >>read more

Brown proposes major moves to increase housing production -- without more state money. >>read more

If ever a year produced a greater variety of land use news in California than 2016 did, we at CP&DR can’t name it. >>read more