The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is embarking on its largest expansion in 10 years, linking two parts of the Angeles Forest.

July 1 - The Los Angeles Times

San Diego State University professor writes in favor of a Citywide policy would require that a portion of all new housing be desginated as "affordable."

July 1 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

ESRI launches its new website featuring geography links, demonstration, software and map layers at the annual User Conference June 26-30 in San Diego, CA.

July 1 - ESRI, Inc.

$20 million for the preservation and restoration of open space on Irvine Ranch committed by Irvine Company and the foundation formed by it's Chairman.

July 1 - The Los Angeles Times

Livermore's Vision 2010 plan is opposed the Sierra Club, which is offering it's own plan. Both would change urban growth boundaries.

June 30 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

Governor Gray Davis plans to sign the 2000-01 budget for the State of California in a live webcast on Friday, June 30 at 11:30 a.m. on the east steps of the Capitol building.

June 30 - State of California, Office of the Governor

Sacramento property owners vote for largest flood control project since Fulsom dam.

June 30 - The Sacramento Bee

Porter Ranch requests and receives approval for scaled-back development from Los Angeles Planning Commisssion.

June 30 - The Los Angeles Times

Oakland, Santa Monica and Palmdale have become the first cities in the state to choose "green power."

June 30 - The Los Angeles Times

Pasadena's Mayor Bill Bogaard discusses 710 Freeway expansion, his vision for alternative transit, Pasadena's power company. and how to maintain a high quality of life.

June 30 - The Metro Investment Report

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) has lifted a limited ban on condominium construction in the Tahoe Basin.

June 30 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

CP&DR Editor Bill Fulton suggests that Governor Davis' new Congestion Relief Plan is "called a plan, but it looks a lot like pork."

June 29 - California Planning and Development Report

Vice President Al Gore and Housing and Urban Development Secretary AndrewCuomo today announced that a new $10 million Community Empowerment initiative will generate upto $100 million to help revitalize some of the nation's most distressed urban neighb

June 29 - HUD News

San Jose City Council approved $150 million funding for 2,056 new affordable homes.

June 29 - San Jose Mercury News

Report suggests that BART expansion from Fremont to San Jose would lure 44,800 commuters onto BART.

June 29 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Pacific Lumber, environmentalists clash over loggingin the last unprotected area within the Headwaters Forest Reserve in California's North Coast.

June 29 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

A sales tax to fund a BART extension to San Jose may be in jeopardy after the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors gave it a lukewarm endorsement.

June 29 - San Jose Mercury News

Mountain View, California, approveszoning changes to make way for a hotel complex that could add to rush-hour traffic problems.

June 29 - San Jose Mercury News

Controversial plan to drain agricultural runoff into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is rejected.

June 29 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Will the need for mobility or the need for community define the future of transportation? Christopher Lee examines the future of transportation over the next 25 years.

June 29 - Urban Land Magazine