Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders agreed to a$4 billion bondthat would fund low-income housing and subsidize home loans for California veterans >>read more
The City of Los Angeles released its first citywide Resilience Strategy to help prepare for natural disasters and other stresses that the city might face >>read more
The San Francisco Planning Department introduced a zoning ordinance to significantly up-zone a 17-block portion of the South of Market Neighborhood to take advantage of the new Central Subway >>read more
A study from UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation found that bureaucratic impediments constitute the main reason San Francisco is the world’s second-most expensive city in which to build a home >> read more
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke indicated that the agency will allow mining on 1.3 million acres of formerly protected California desert >>read more
The California Department of Housing and Community Development released a list of cities and counties that are subject to streamlined housing development through Senate Bill 35. >>read more
MTC’s Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) approved a resolution to place a $4.45 billion package of transportation projects known as Regional Measure 3 (RM3) on the June 5 ballot >>read more
The estimated cost of constructing 119 miles of high-speed rail track in the Central Valley has increased by $2.8 billion to a total of $10.6 billion. >>read more
The Mountain View City Council unanimously approved the North Bayshore redevelopment plan that would create a dense, city-like campus of offices and homes >>read more
The Senate Environmental Quality Committee released a study examining how state transportation, parks, and other projects were handled under CEQA >>read more