After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom had demanded changes to address the state’s housing crisis, a philosophical shift for Democratic leaders.

Gov. Gavin Newsom tied the state budget to the passage of policy to lessen environmental review standards to speed up the ...

San Francisco and Austin are both known for their trendsetting tech sectors and cultural scenes. But while Austin is enjoying ...

For much of the past half century, suburban sprawl across the Sun Belt was a kind ... The perception of the Sun Belt as the anti-California used to be accurate. In a recent paper, two urban economists ...

And the emerging contrast in approaches between the city and county could not be starker. So much of this has to do with how close to expand the region’s urban footprint towards the Sacramento River.

The notion of controlling development and limiting suburban sprawl is finding some traction in pockets of the Sun Belt and ...