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.

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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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