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Caltrans To Use Fast-Setting Concrete
New fast-setting concrete that sets in four hours instead of two to three days helps Caltrans reduce traffic problems due to construction.
Santa Clara Voters Want BART
Poll finds Santa Clara County voters want the BART in San Jose and are willing to pay more taxes to make it happen.
Dearth Valley
How would you like to commute 100 miles in each direction? It's happening in Silicon Valley because jobs there are a dime a dozen. Housing isn't.
Dirt Into Dollars
The Brookings Review takes a new approach to converting vacant land into valuable development.
Celebrities Donate For Headwaters Bond
Major donations from celebrity entertainers help environmentalists meet court deadline to post a $250,000 bond to temporarily halt logging near the Headwaters preserve in the North Coast regionof California.
Analysts Find Open Space Proposal Flawed
County planning analysis finds Sierra Club's open space initiative unlikely to ease traffic and or save agriculturein Alameda County, California.
$30 Million San Francisco Waterfront Project
An entertainment complex is planned for San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Too much like Las Vegas, say critics. Great tourist appeal say supporters.
Oceanfront Land Development Blocked
Increased housing pressure from hi-tech millionaires prompts conservation group to purchase oceanfront land to prevent development of trophy homes along California's San Mateo County coastline.
Oceanside Approves 1000-Home Project
Proposed 1000-home project in Oceanside, CA, approved by City Council.
E-Architecture: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics
Exhibition in Venice, Italy, explores new concepts of urban space, influenced by the Internet and evolving technologies.
UC Merced's New Wetlands Preserve
Amid concern about the environmental impacts of a new UC Merced campus, 60,000 acrese around the campus will be purchased as a wetlands preserve.
San Diego Growth Survey
Concerns about growth loom large in San Diego. Residents see government as major part of problem, but optimism about region’s future reigns.
Attack of the Killer Billboards
Monster billboards are becoming the bane of San Francisco planners, wher huge dot-com billboards are being hoised without permits.
Old Mill Camp May See Chips Fly Yet Again
Somoa, a former mill town 300 miles north of San Francisco, has offered itself for sale as an opportunity for historic preservation or affordable housing.
The Mojave Desert: Future Tense
In the Mojave Desert, military bases could become islands of habitat in a sea of urban sprawl. Now researchers are using GIS and other tools to study the options.
LA's Red Busses Win Praise
MTA's new red busses are a surprisingly successful experiment for LA's public transportation system.
Nothing Left to Lose
Only radical strategies can help America's most distressed cities.
$39 Million for San Mateo County Land
The Peninsula Open Space Trust plans to purchase 1,719 acres of land along California's San Mateo coast for $39 million.
Good Economy Benefits Kern County
Kern County Administrators release their pleasantly plump spending plan for fiscal year 2000-2001.
Big Fine Day
A new report endorses the use of fines to punish gas stations and oil companies who have polluted public drinking water sources.
Ada County Highway District
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
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