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New Sponsors Rekindle Land Use Law and Planning Conference 
New Sponsors Rekindle Land Use Law and Planning Conference 

by Josh Stephens on Jan 14, 2026

CEQA, Events, Land Use Law, Legislation

Venerable conference covering legal cases and legislation crucial to California planning reconvenes in downtown Los Angeles Friday, January 23, under sponsorship of CP&DR and Arizona State University 

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Q&A: Robert Freilich Heralds Age Of Sustainable Planning
Q&A: Robert Freilich Heralds Age Of Sustainable Planning

Jan 13, 2011

California Environmental Quality Act, Josh Stephens, land use law, Legislation, New urbanism, Q&A, Regional planning, Robert Freilich, Vol. 26 No. 1 Jan 1, 2011

One of the country's leading experts on land use law, attorney and UCLA professor Robert Freilich has tried cases and designed plans in hundreds of cities and witnessed the legal and conceptual evolution of planning. In 1999 he co-authored From Sprawl to Smart Growth: Successful Legal, Planning and Environmental Systems, which heralded the mainstreaming of the smart growth movement. >>read more

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The Supreme Court's Urban Tilt
The Supreme Court's Urban Tilt

May 10, 2010

land use law, Obama, Supreme Court

 President Obama has now nominated two women to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court – and the addition of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- nominated Monday and almost sure to be confirmed -- will definitely give the court a new tilt. But the tilt isn't about gender. It's about geography. In Sotomayor and Kagan, Obama has selected two women who have lived their whole lives in big cities – they're both from New York, though from very different backgrounds (Sotomayor's from the Bronx).

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