City, County Continue Battle For Control Of Santa Clarita Valley
It’s not every day that a city places a full-page newspaper advertisement demanding a larger sphere of influence. Yet that is just what the City of Santa Clarita did last fall — on the same day it...
View ArticleNew Town Proposal Alive In San Benito County
A developer is proposing a new town of up to 6,800 housing units and 2.5 million square feet of commercial and industrial space in the northwest corner of San Benito County, just across the boundary of...
View ArticleRancho Guejito: Environmental Gem Or New Growth Area?
The owners of a 22,000-acre ranch in San Diego County are making preliminary moves to develop their property, located several miles east of Escondido. However, environmentalists, public land advocates...
View ArticleElk Grove: 7-Year-Old City Seeks Land For Expansion
When voters approved the incorporation of Elk Grove in Sacramento County in early 2000, the town had a population of about 54,000. Today, Elk Grove’s population is heading past 140,000, and the city is...
View ArticleAttorney General: LAFCO May Adjust Proposed City Boundaries
A local agency formation commission may alter the boundaries of a proposed new city beyond those drawn by incorporation proponents, according to a state attorney general’s opinion.read more
View ArticleKern County Approves Tejon Ranch Resort
A major residential and resort development on the Tejon Ranch has won unanimous approval from the Kern County Board of Supervisors. The project, known as Tejon Mountain Village, is proposed to have...
View ArticleSouth Sutter Specific Plan Envisions New City In Valley
After two decades of false starts, public and private planning efforts, litigation and ballot measures, development in South Sutter County appears ready to commence – just as soon as the economy...
View ArticleSunset Beach Lawsuit Clouds Future of ‘Island’ Annexations
The Malibu policeman's immortal warning "keep out of my beach community!" in the 1998 leisure-sport epic The Big Lebowski could just as easily have been uttered last autumn by certain residents of...
View ArticleProposed ‘New City’ Banks on Resurrection of Salton Sea
With a surface level at 227 feet below sea level and shoreline temperatures often rising past 120 degrees, the Salton Sea could be mistaken for the headwaters of the River Styx. Sometimes,...
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