The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Despite serious concerns with theproposed Calpine Corp. power plant in San Jose's Coyote Valley, theCalifornia Energy Commission, recommended theproject's approval.

October 15 - San Jose Mercury News

California energy officials took the initial steps to speeding up power plant approval by ordering the commencement of work on new processrules.

October 15 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

California Coastal Commission votes to push for a role in crafting habitat conservation plans that allow development on fragile lands.

October 14 - The Los Angeles Times

It may be too late for a statewide ballot measure designed to "keep farmland out of the hands of developers."

October 14 - The Cincinnati Post

This editorial comes out against Prop. 37, which reclassifies feesused to "mitigate the societal or economic effects of an activity" as atax.

October 14 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

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.

October 14 - The Sacramento Bee

Despite an executive order by Gov. Gray Davis to ban MTBE usein gasoline by 2002, the amount of MTBE blended into gasoline byNorthern California refineries increased by 14% from April to June,according to a report by the California Energy Commission

October 14 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Delivery Dot-com to shed jobs and become courier.

October 14 - The New York Times

Doubling in metro population strangles region.

October 13 - Wired

Office Buildings Will Get More Competition for Infomration Services.

October 13 - The New York Times

Helped by contributions from an Internet company, the Nature Conservancy spends $11.7 million to purchase 27,000 acres of sensitive habitat.

October 13 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

A look at Greater Cincinnati's urban growth over the last fifty years.

October 13 - The Cincinnati Post

Congress approved an $18.8 billion measure that includes an immediate down payment for purchasing fragile lands, maintaining parks and other initiatives.

October 13 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

The Matilija Dam, which was built in 1948 to provide drinking water to the Ojai Valley, will be torn down. How to do it is the problem.

October 13 - The Los Angeles Times

The November 7, 2000 election is shaping up as a potential landmark in ballot-box planning in California.

October 13 - California Planning and Development Report

Ohio is losing farmland at "more than twice previous year's yearly rate" and issues such as sprawl, greenspace preservation, watershed protection, and revitalizing urban brownfields are becoming critical.

October 13 - The Cincinnati Post

Boston's massive Big Dig project -- considered the most expensive highway project in the nation -- will bury Interstate 93 under downtown Boston and "leave a 30-acre swath of open land cutting through the heart of the city"heart of the city."

October 13 - CNN

San Francisco, Washington, and Denver are examined to see what these places have done right.

October 13 - CNN

There are significant problems with the Copper River Ranch plan in light of League of Women Voters' positions on transportation, land use and air quality.

October 12 - The Fresno Bee

A growing number of U.S. House and Senate candidates have adopted issues predominantly associated with local government as concernwith overdevelopment, diminishing open space, overcrowded schools, gridlock, and air and water quality increases.

October 12 - The Washington Post