Bill and Josh discuss CP&DR's most popular stories of the year. >>read more

The pandemic, racial injustice, an end to California's population growth -- has California planning ever seen a year like this before? >>read more

CP&DR's retrospective of the triumphs, failures, and tensions that influenced California's built environment in the 2010s >>read more

The state’s housing shortage and affordability crisis yet again dominated CP&DR’s coverage >>read more

Senate Bill 827 gets its own category in CP&DR's annual list of its most-read stories >>read more

The California Planning & Development Report's annual roundup of its most popular articles of the year >>read more

If ever a year produced a greater variety of land use news in California than 2016 did, we at CP&DR can’t name it. >>read more

With the economy humming along, innovative ideas sprouting up around the state, and, of course, the occasional dispute, 2015 was as lively a year for land use as any other in recent memory. To mark the new year, CP&DR presents its most-read stories of 2015. 

New laws that bring back redevelopment in a limited way. The Office of Planning & Research's effort to do away with the traffic "level of service" standard. And whether you can live in California without a car.

These are just a few of the most-read stories from California Planning & Development Report in 2014. And now you can check them out again. Here's CP&DR's Top 20 List � in order:

CP&DR usually publishes a top-10 list of the biggest planning stories of the year, but the process enumerating the stories this year took a strange turn this year. Until they repeal Proposition 13 or Nevada launches an invasion, the convoluted quest to kill the state's nearly 400 redevelopment agencies and/or send their tax increment back to Sacramento is a mega-story for the ages.