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Planning Departments Feel COVID-19's Fiscal Pain
Planning Departments Feel COVID-19's Fiscal Pain

by Wiliam Fulton on Apr 6, 2020

Anaheim, COVID-19, Hotel Bed Tax, Mammoth, Sales Tax, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara

Cities with big retail and tourists sectors are likely to experience the worst revenue drops immediately; can all cities keep their planners on the payroll?

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Mammoth Lakes: Resort Town Prepares for the Big Time
Mammoth Lakes: Resort Town Prepares for the Big Time

Aug 1, 2000

Local Watch, Mammoth, Paul Shigley, Vol. 15 No. 08 Aug 2000

Long seen as something of a second-tier resort area, Mammoth Mountain appears headed for the big time. Intrawest, a Canadian company with extensive resort development and operation experience, intends to build 2,300, mostly upper-end housing units and create a new town center in the City of Mammoth Lakes. The idea is to make Mammoth Lakes and the nearby Mammoth Mountain Ski Area competitive with premier all-season resorts such as those in Vail and Aspen, Colorado, Park City, Utah, and Whist...

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Mamoth Lakes Redevelopment Plan, EIR Invalidated
Mamoth Lakes Redevelopment Plan, EIR Invalidated

Aug 1, 2000

CP&DR Staff, Legal Digest, Mammoth, Vol. 15 No. 08 Aug 2000

An appellate court has thrown out the Town of Mammoth Lakes' redevelopment plan and the plan's EIR. The Third District Court of Appeal held that there was no substantial evidence that the 1,139-acre redevelopment project area was blighted or even predominately urbanized. The court also ruled there was no evidence that current conditions prevented economic development. As for the EIR, the court ruled that the town's program EIR was inadequate and the town should have thoroughly analyzed all 72 projects i...

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