Land Use

GAO finds land exchange programs are rife for abuse by developers and timber companies, and suggests that federal agencies discontinue the programs.

Palo Alto, CA, planners suggest evicting doctors, dentists, and medical practitioners near Stanford University to make room for housing.

A small tribe in San Diego County is planning a casino to bring in money for housing and a health clinic but some residents don't think it is a good idea.

The Irvine Company has helped to breathe new life into a $300-million, 185-acre technology park that will serve as Orange County's tech hub.

Palm Springs, California, the desert hideaway of the rich and famous, is seeing a boom in casinos that is upsetting residents and businesses that do not want to see their city turn into another Las Vegas.

Failure to recognize the connection between land use and transportation threatens the region's economic future and quality of life.

Feature article in the Brookings Review focuses on how to tame metropolitan growth -- what must government do?

Impacts of Disney's proposed "creative campus" on a 125-acre site in Glendale are released in a draft environmental review.

One of the largest housing developments in Los Angeles County historyis held up by a nearly extinct toad.

Sacramento Bee asks: Who pays for the costs of pollution -- the polluter or the public? Voters will decide in November.

Placer and Sacramento counties evaluate 18 flood control projects for 100-year flood event.

The former El Toro Marine base in Orange County should have been a cargo airport already. Instead, the county is losing money just trying to maintain the empty airfield.

The Department of Industrial Relations has launched a new policy of monthly surprise sweeps of residential-tract construction sites.

Some of the strictest anti-growth initiatives in the nation are headed for the November ballot in the Tri-Valley area of Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

Resale housing market up in LA, Orange, and San Diego Counties, down in Riverside-San Bernardino, and even in Northern California.

Police have begun to crack down on homeless areas that were previously declared "safe sleeping zones" by the City Council.

Both Sacramento and Portland have roughly the same population. So why is Portland so much more "livable?" More importantly, is Portland's smart growth sustainable?

New $250 million University of California campus is looking at innovative ways to deal with environmental and land use concerns while maintaining political support.

San Diego State University professor writes in favor of a Citywide policy would require that a portion of all new housing be desginated as "affordable."

Livermore's Vision 2010 plan is opposed the Sierra Club, which is offering it's own plan. Both would change urban growth boundaries.