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'Old Oakland' Developers Lose Suit Against Bank That Dropped Project

Sep 1, 2002

Legal Digest, other, Vol. 17 No. 09 Sep 2002

The tortured history of a development in downtown Oakland added another chapter when a state appellate court overturned a lower court decision against Citicorp Real Estate, which had foreclosed on the project. The appellate panel found that the jury had been instructed incorrectly and that Citicorp had done nothing legally wrong in respect to its handling of the "Old Oakland" project.

Serious Threat Of Condemnation Triggers Process, Court Rules

Sep 1, 2002

Legal Digest, other, Vol. 17 No. 09 Sep 2002

In a case that pitted open space protection against eminent domain law, the First District Court of Appeal has ruled that a Sonoma County open space district did not need to get voter approval before granting an easement for a treated wastewater pipeline across district property.

Apartments May Be As Likely As New Houses To Contain Children

Sep 1, 2002

Chris Williamson, Mivelia Andika, Research Reports, Vol. 17 No. 09 Sep 2002

Since the mid-1990s, most new market-rate housing in California has been of the single-family detached (SFD) variety. Under traditional assumptions, these units should be generating school-age children at a predictable rate — because they would be occupied by families with a predictable number of children. But when single-family homes represent the only housing being built, those assumptions might go out the window. All types of households might occupy the new houses. And that r

Indian Casinos Sweep Across State: Locals Have No Jurisdiction, But Some Tribes Are Negotiating Anyway

Jul 1, 2000

Featured Articles, Paul Shigley, Vol. 17 No. 09 Sep 2002

With the approval last March of a statewide initiative and the signing of a pact between the governor's office and 63 Indian tribes, development of Indian casinos is taking off. Proposals for major new casinos are introduced seemingly every week, and tribes that operate many of the existing 39 casinos have expansion plans. The casino boom is passing by local government officials, who have no say over what happens on lands held in trust for Indian tribes. "If it's reservation land, they pretty much do ...