Sarah Klearman

While the Bay Area boomed over the decades, diminutive San Benito County kept a low-profile. Now, the days of rural quietude may be ending, whether residents like it or not. Newport Pacific Land Company indicated last month it intends to move forward with the formal planning appl

Surrounded by farmland, the small city of Davis has long been a fitting setting for its namesake University of California campus, which, among other things, is known as one of the top agricultural and veterinary universities in the world. But even UC Davis has urban ambitions: Th

The fast-tracked approval of a 74-unit affordable housing apartment complex in Marin City, an unincorporated community in Marin County, has again stoked concerns about loss of local control over housing developments approved under Senate Bill 35. Enacted in 2018, the bill allows