California
California To Use Water Under Mojave Desert
There is disagreement on the environmental safety related to drilling water from beneath the Mojave. Will a mechanical device resolve the problem?
Coastal Protections At Risk
Any weakening of water quality due to urban runoff will affect 34 significant coastal areas in California. Crystal Cove and Point Lobos are two.
San Francisco Races To Halt Pedestrian Deaths
California's most dangerous city for walking responds to the high pedestrian death rate with fines, ads, and high-tech.
400,000 Acres Declared Critical Habitat
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designatedparts of California's East San FranciscoBay area as critical habitat for a snake.
Proposed Housing Has Air Agency Up In Arms
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
Dot-Com Boom Makes S.F. a War Zone
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.
Counties File Suit Over Water Plan
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.
Transit Village: MTA's Newest Plan
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.
Debate Flares Over Property Tax Caps
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.
Deer Create Airport Havoc
Deer are wandering into Humbolt County's airport runways causing risky situations for aircraft.
New Faults Found Off California Coast
Scientists discovered two hidden faults off the California coast capabale of magnitude - 7.6 earthquakes.
CA Voters Want To Slow Growth
The process of initiative and referendum is California’s most peculiar institution. William Fulton explains why.
Landowners To Unveil Transit Overhaul Plan
Landowners pushing the North Livermore development plan presented a $50 million transit proposal to Livermore city and county planning commissions on Tuesday.
A Step Toward Rational Growth
This Los Angeles Times editorial endorses Assembly Bill 2838 by Speaker Bob Hertzberg, D-Sherman Oaks, which would reform the process by which local governments alter boundaries and authorize municipal services.
California's Housing Crisis Affects Us All
In this L.A. Times opinion article, Jan Breidenbach, executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Nonprofit Housing, and Peter Dreier, Professor of Politics and Public Policy atOccidental College, highlight the plight of low-income families.
$1.6 Billion To Be Passed For Conservation
Congress agreed on a bill that will provide $1.6 billion in 2001 and $2.4 billion by 2006 for conservation. This is the largest increase ever.
Santa Barbara Waterfront Doesn't Smell Good
Three creeks in Santa Barbara flush naturally during the rainy season. The city breached the creeks in the summer. No more. And now it smells.
Luxury Housing Along Orange County Coast
After decades of controversy, lawsuits and threats, housing developments along Orange County's prime coastal areas are now moving forward.
San Francisco's Lousy Cab Service
Now there is a place where San Francisco residents can complain about how lousy their cab service is.
Real Estate in California: A Belief System
One of every 10 free-standing single-family homes in the US is in California; one of every 100 in the world. This is a California tale from Sonoma.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
