News Briefs

A recently filed lawsuit against Newport Beach accuses the City Council of violating the city charter by approving housing ordinances and resolutions without allowing voters to decide in the November election

The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority withdrew a proposed $20 billion housing bond measure, Regional Measure 4, from the November ballot due to significant errors in its cost projections

The Oakland City Council adopted the Downtown Oakland Specific Plan, its first comprehensive plan for the area, which integrates racial equity into its vision and implementation

The San Diego City Council approved the major updates to several community plans that usher in significant increases in density and urban design upgrades 

The San Diego City Council adopted a comprehensive general plan amendment called Blueprint SD, aiming to guide the city's growth while addressing climate change, expediting zoning updates and tackling racial segregation

California Forever, the parent company behind the East Solano Plan to build a new city of up to 400,000 residents on the northeastern edge of the Bay Area, reached an agreement with Solano County on a new process for advancing the plan

Attorney General Rob Bonta is appealing a Superior Court decision that halted the enforcement of Senate Bill 9 in charter cities

The Department of Housing and Community Development has determined that the City and County of San Francisco missed its housing permitting goals in 2023

HUD awarded $85 million in grants for the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing program. California jurisdictions received a total of $15 million and four of the 20 grants awarded nationwide

The REAP 2.0 grants got reinstated -- but MPOs must obligate the funds by September. Meanwhile, affordable housing lost $1 billion.

The Department of Insurance has drafted regulations that would allow insurance companies to use predictive catastrophe models if, and only if, they increase writing of policies in wildfire distressed areas

The Sites Reservoir, the state's largest water storage venture in nearly five decades, overcame environmental challenges in court, with the Yolo County Superior Court ruling favor of the project

San Francisco's plan to transform the Transbay Transit Center into the "Grand Central Station of the West" has garnered $3.4 billion from the federal government

The City of Oakland has reached a tentative deal to sell its share of the Coliseum site to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group