The Sacramento Bee

A resident of Spokane speaks out on the benefits of mixed use in the City's new comprehensive plan.

Architect Aaron Betsky explains why "Architecture Must Burn."

The national passenger rail corporation announced a $10 billion plan to dramatically improve service in the state.

The city's sanitation district is being asked to use its fees to discourage urban sprawl.

Cisco Systems's plan for a 20,000 worker research and developmentcenter has caused a controversial battle.

The emerging land-use paradigm in California is making it increasingly difficult for people to realize the dream of home ownership.

Several new proposals seek to ease California's housing affordability crisis.

There are two answers to California's water supply problem. You won't like either of them.

The new bill would authorize the state to sell bonds to buy development rights to farmland threatened by sprawl.

Columnist Dan Walters asks: Is LA's political clout clouded by a population that is heavily low-income?

The Sacramento LAFCO is finding it difficult to control sprawl in the outer county.

California is in the midst of a huge population surge at the same time that growth control is gaining support.

In her Sacramento Bee column, Diana Griego Erwin advocatesadhering to urban growth boundaries in efforts to curb sprawl.

State architects and engineers and private firms are battlingto determine the outcome of Proposition 35, an initiative that wouldlift restrictions on the state and allow it to contract out to privatecompanies for public projects

In this opinion editorial, VictorWeisser, president of the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance (CCEEB), endorses Prop. 37 as a "responsible measure that represents sound fiscal and environmental policy.

According to a pair of studies by the University ofCalifornia's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, doubling the number of mature trees and resurfacing dark-colored roofs and roads with heat-reflecting material in Sacramento County would almost halve

The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District has made an unprecedented move in attempting to block the passage of Measure O, an initiative that would change the land use designation of 2,000 acres outside of the county's urban growth bounda

Deer are wandering into Humbolt County's airport runways causing risky situations for aircraft.

At an annual housing conference at UC Berkeleyhousing researcher Robert Lang of the Fannie Mae Foundation warned that by enacting smart growth revitalization strategies without ensuringaffordable housing and subsidy programs, gentrification occurs.

Editorial encourages Congress to pass theConservation and Reinvestment Act of 2000, an annual fund created 35years ago that intended to set aside $900 million every year to expandnational parks, preserve historic sites and rebuild urban parks.