To cut down on discretionary review, new housing laws require cities to approve housing projects so long as they conform to "objective" design standards. Cities are scrambling to draft standards that promote housing and promote desired aesthetic goals.
SB 50 went down in flames once more. But the bill gave the state cover for other bills that would otherwise would have been considered radical. And RHNA is forcing upzoning all over the state.
For the third time in three years, Sen. Scott Wiener is advancing a bill to promote density near jobs and transit and do away with single-family zoning.
As Temecula looks to more intensive urbanization, Josh Stephens spoke with Community Development Director Luke Watson as part of CP&DR’s new occasional series of interviews with municipal planning officials.
The "retail apocalypse" has claimed a particularly unfortunate victim: the homegrown outdoor equipment chain Adventure 16. California's cities and wilderness are both worse off.
This Land skewers the federal land management agencies -- and, in the process, indirectly provides a good reason to keep CEQA and California's other environmental laws.
Advances in mobility technologies -- from electric cars to robotic shopping carts -- are dazzling. But planners will be hard-pressed to predict which ones will prevail.
