News Briefs

The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously to endorse the mayor's proposal for a citywide master plan for constructing housing solutions for homeless residents. >>read more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new National Risk Index has calculated that Los Angles is the county most in danger for natural disaster. >>read more

Facebook is in talks with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing. >>read more

The Trump administration finalized its adoption of a regulatory definition of “habitat" for purposes of species protection. >>read more

Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Robert Rivas co-introduced legislation that would allow local governments to upzone neighborhoods. >>read more

Los Angeles established what it is calling a "Transportation Technology Innovation Zone" to field-test new transportation technologies. >>read more

The University of California Board of Regents voted to move forward with a $1.1 billion addition to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. >>read more

San Jose city officials released a development plan that would add 13,000 residential units, up to 13.7 million square feet of office space. >>read more

Attorney General Xavier Becerra is urging the San Diego County Supervisors to deny, at least temporarily, approval of a large South County development because of concerns about impacts to wildlife >>read more

A coalition of environmental groups including the Sierra Club is suing the East Bay city of Richmond over its approval of a mixed-use project  >>read more

The Southern California Association of Governments reports that 50 jurisdictions have filed objects to their RHNA allocations >>read more

The California Chapter of the American Planning Association announced its annual awards in September at its virtual conference.

Newport Beach and Huntington Beach have announced they will appeal their Regional Housing Needs Assessments >>read more

Four of San Diego Association of Governments' member cities are suing the agency for what they claim is an inequitable use of a weighted vote. >>read more