The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Facing criticism of serious flaws and unrealistic assumptions, Army Corps of Engineers agrees to delay a controversial study of major construction projects on the Mississippi River.

October 5 - The Washington Post

There is disagreement on the environmental safety related to drilling water from beneath the Mojave. Will a mechanical device resolve the problem?

October 4 - The Los Angeles Times

Any weakening of water quality due to urban runoff will affect 34 significant coastal areas in California. Crystal Cove and Point Lobos are two.

October 4 - The Los Angeles Times

California's most dangerous city for walking responds to the high pedestrian death rate with fines, ads, and high-tech.

October 4 - USA Today

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designatedparts of California's East San FranciscoBay area as critical habitat for a snake.

October 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

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

October 4 - The Sacramento Bee

HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo on Monday told thenation's top housing researchers, policy-makers, academics, and industry representatives that, toensure all Americans live in affordable, decent and safe housing, the U.S. must increase its production of ne

October 4 - HUD News

"As many as 7 percent of the Chicago Housing Authority's 38,000 public units will be demolished next year, and 1,000 units will be built or renovated under a plan for the first full year of the agency's overhaul."

October 4 - The Chicago Tribune

The American city in the 21st Century: the view from Camden.

October 4 - Urban Land Magazine

As high-tech firms invade into San Francisco's Mission District and drive out longtime residents and hike up the rents, protestors demonstrate against the dot-com "colonization" with street theater and vandalism.

October 4 - The Los Angeles Times

CNN presents a special report on where George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on issues like smart growth and urban sprawl.

October 4 - CNN

L.A.Times op-ed wonders if "when Houston got the pro football expansion team that L.A. was angling for, it got the L.A. air to go along with it."

October 4 - The Los Angeles Times

After decades of building suburban landscapes that are designed to get rid of water, Massachusetts is taking steps to stem the flow.

October 4 - The Boston Globe

The Regional Council of Rural Counties filed suit on Tuesday in the Sacramento Superior Court against the CalFed water accord, claiming that it is a cloaked effort to take control over northern groundwater and funnel it to southern water districts.

October 3 - San Jose Mercury News

Live, shop, hang out--all within a quarter mile of the metro transportation you use to get to work. Some villages are underway, with others planned.

October 3 - The Los Angeles Times

Despite supporters' assertions that new legislation linked to Prop. 39 caps the amount property taxes can be raised to fund a school bond, opponents argue that the legislation would actually eliminate the caps.

October 3 - The Los Angeles Times

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

October 3 - The Sacramento Bee

Scientists discovered two hidden faults off the California coast capabale of magnitude - 7.6 earthquakes.

October 3 - Orange County Register

The process of initiative and referendum is California’s most peculiar institution. William Fulton explains why.

October 3 - California Planning and Development Report

Good Jobs First released an analysis of 122 audits of state economic development programs performed over the last decade.

October 3 - Electronic Policy Network