Driving much of the dysfunction is a progressive regulatory structure that smothers builders under mountains of red tape ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a major housing bill to speed construction by easing environmental rules. The state is notorious for ...

This is a failure, not least because the government has managed to turn public transit and city sidewalks into filthy encampments and dangerous zombie drug dens.

Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.

Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent governors, was not willing to invest enough political capital to ...

According to CalMatters, the law allows high-tech manufacturing facilities to be built in areas already zoned for industrial ...

Lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a spending plan that, by emergency proclamation, enables access to the budget ...

Gavin Newsom's about-face on anti-development environmental restrictions is welcome, but it does not touch the underlying ...

Housing projects up to 85 feet high on lots in existing neighborhoods, known as infill, are now exempt from environmental ...

New legislation exempts virtually all infill housing projects from CEQA’s provisions, making it more difficult for opponents ...

It took what amounted to political blackmail against the Legislature, but Gov. Gavin Newsom finally achieved what his ...

Changes to the California Environmental Quality Act came via two trailer bills (AB 130 and SB 131) attached to the state ...