Josh Stephens

The recent Infill Summit revealed equal parts optimism and frustration over the state of development in California

This year's edition of the conference of the California Chapter of the American Planning Association arrives in a subdued version of Los Angeles

In 1997, the suburban dream was strong in the Sacramento areas. The capital city drew various measures of pity and indifference from coastal urbanities while places such as Elk Grove, Folsom, and Roseville grew as quickly as tract-home developers could build them. That's the year that Tom Pace joined the City of Sacramento's Planning Division. In the years since then, Sacramento and Pace -- who took over long-range planning in 2006 and became planning director in 2017 (after a brief stint in...