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The housing that would have accompanied a new seven-story mixed-use building with 256,200 square feet of offices and 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail at Broadway and Main Street is

The housing element of the general plan is critical at a time when the county and the entire state is facing a housing crisis. Housing costs – both rental and home ownership – are increasingly out of reach for the majority of residents in the county. The median listing price for homes in Monterey County now stands at $1.2 million, according to Realtor.com.

In a dispute over a traffic impact fee imposed on a residential building permit by El Dorado County, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the long-standing position of California...

The county’s updated 2023-31 housing element identifies necessary rezoning to meet state housing goals, which includes plans for 2,833 units throughout the unincorporated areas.

On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision that may have major impacts on developers in California, although the degree of impact will depend on how lower...

By a 4-1 vote April 9, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors put the words “if feasible” back into two rules that, since 2020, required oil, natural gas and wastewater

Residents in the Lone Mountain community said they are taking action to demonstrate the height of a proposed religious temple and said they are not full of hot air—neither is their balloon.

Vallejo students deserve a complete school facility, and Vallejo residents deserve a revitalized downtown. We shouldn’t have to choose.

By Leah Hecker, John Brooks, Jack Adam Weber and Phil White Ojai poster child for dysfunctionIt’s Groundhog Day! Surely it must be? On April 9, once again, an Ojai city

Energy resiliency, jobs-housing match and a nascent transit center numbered among the range of topics discussed by the General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) last week.