News Briefs

The City of San Francisco announced a plan to upzone Central South of Market to accommodate around 7,800 new affordable and market-rate housing units and 40,000 new jobs. >>read more

Economic analysis firm BAE Urban Economics has released a report “CEQA in the 21st Century Environmental Quality, Economic Prosperity, and Sustainable Development in California” contending that, contrary to claims by many developers and planners, the California Environmental Quality Act supports economically and environmental sustainable development. >>read more

Riverside County reached a settlement with Highland Fairview, the developers of the World Logistics Center in Moreno Valley, to mitigate impacts of the massive facility. >>read more

Housing activists, including Urban Habitat and Housing California, are suing city of San Jose for a policy shift that undercuts state the Surplus Land Act, a state law designed to encourage affordable housing on public property... >>read more

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Garrett Wong ruled the city’s environmental review of the proposed Golden State Warriors’ arena in Mission Bay neighborhood was adequate. The court ruled the mitigations were reasonable and that local transit agencies were notified and able to respond to add additional services... >>read more

The California Air Resources Board released a plan that would continue the cap-and-trade program past the 2020 expiration date to 2050. The program has been instrumental in Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to cut emissions by major companies.... >>read more

Mayor Libby Shaaf gets serious about alternative transportation >>read more

Caltrans released the California Transportation Plan 2040, a long-range integrated approach to transportation planning that is multimodal, sustainable and environmentally responsible. Caltrans describes the plan as taking a "whole system" approach toward the state's transportation system that integrates statewide long-range modal plans and programs... >>read more

San Diego Downtown Mobility Plan, LA homeless plans, and more. >>read more

Sacramento released an EIR for the downtown railyards project. >>read more

South Los Angeles and a section of San Diego south of downtown have been designated federal Promise Zones. >>read more

ParkScore, a project of the Trust for Public Land, ranked the 100 largest U.S. cities on their needs for parks >>read more

In a possible blow to High Speed Rail and climate-change programs like the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities grant program, the most recent cap-and-trade auction fell short of expectations. >>read more

Marking a major expansion of Los Angeles’ rail network, Phase II of the Exposition Light Rail Line, from Culver City to Santa Monica, officially opened Friday, May 20. >>read more