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City of Los Angeles - City Council Adopts Processes and Procedures Ordinance - On December 6, 2022, the City of Los Angeles City Council adopted the Processes and Procedures Ordinance...

In a partially published opinion in Save Lafayette v. City of Lafayette (2022) 85 Cal.App.5th 842, the First District Court of Appeal upheld approval of an affordable housing project in...

O'Brien Land Company's more than a decade-long odyssey to build 315 zoning-compliant homes – chronicled in Conor Dougherty's book Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America – has...

How the state blew up its zoning codes and embraced new development. Over the past five years, state legislators have passed a raft of housing laws that completely transform urban planning in California.

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Streamlined Approval for Housing on Commercially Zoned Sites, Parking and Density Reforms, and New Timelines for Post-Entitlement Permits Are Highlights of Big Year for Housing Law...

As in previous years, the California Legislature enacted a large volume of housing production laws in the 2022 session, some of which may have a significant effect on housing production...

YIMBY et al. v. City of Los Angeles et al. concerned a proposed 67-unit housing development in the Woodland Hills area of the San Fernando Valley. While the City of Los Angeles's (the...

YIMBY et al v. City of Los Angeles et al concerned a proposed 67-unit housing development in the Woodland Hills area of the San Fernando Valley.

Multi-family development continues in California even as construction and labor costs still affect the market. Kitty Wallace, senior executive vice president at Colliers International...