California Planning & Development Report

California Planning & Development Report [CP&DR] is a periodical for planners, land-use lawyers, developers, environmentalists, citizen activists, and others interested and involved in the process of planning and development in California. Almost all of CP&DR's editorial material is prepared by professional journalists with special knowledge in planning and development. The CPDR blog features posts by Bill Fulton and Paul Shigley.

Nov 20
Divisions Emerge Over SB 375's Reach : As the full weight of SB 375 starts to become evident, members divisions on the state board charged with implementing the legislation are emerging....
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Nov 17
Solving Downtown Sacramento's Problems With An Arena : The environmental impact report for the huge Sacramento rail yards redevelopment project was upheld earlier this month by Superior Court Judge Lloyd Connolly....
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Nov 10
In Bad Times, ULI Talks Planning, Not Development : The Urban Land Institute has a reputation of being an organization in which enlightened developers get together with the occasional savvy planner and designer....
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Nov 6
More On The Broken Public Review Process : Maybe California’s public process for making land use decisions really is “old and sick,” as new urbanism champion Andrés Duany said during a recent presentation in Sacramento.Duany’s criticism of the...
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Oct 30
Water Reality Trumps Water Politics : California’s water politics are hopeless. That’s the only conclusion I can reach, and it was reaffirmed earlier this week when I attended a Great Valley Center forum on water. read more...
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Oct 30
The Public Process: How NIMBY's Encourage Suburban Sprawl : Now is the time to roll out new planning ideas – different codes, new public review processes, original ways of thinking....
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Oct 27
Are The Days Of The 'CEQA Stadium' Numbered? : For the second time this year, we’ve been reminded that the California Environmental Quality Act is not a set of tablets brought down from Mount Whitney....
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