Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

A referendum to overturn the City Council’s approval of the One Paseo development project in Carmel Valley was recently certified by the City Clerk after signatures from more than 61,000 San Diego ...

Mayor Abraham Beame (foreground) with President Carter in the South Bronx in 1977. It was in 1975, during Beame’s tenure as mayor, that the city’s Uniform Land Use Procedure, or ULURP, was created.

The Charter Review Commission appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, though initially focused on term limits and non-partisan elections, recently invited comments about the city's Uniform Land Use ...

The deal struck last week between community litigants and Kilroy over One Paseo holds a great deal of promise for badly needed reforms to our community planning process in San Diego. After hearing ...

A report documenting the extensive community involvement that UCSF facilitated in 2009-2010 to develop forest management goals for the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve and how the University will ...

The view down Knickerbocker Avenue. The plan calls for new commercial overlays and makes room for residential, commercial, transit and manufacturing corridors, including Knickerbocker Avenue west of ...

Mayor Alan Arakawa has directed the Department of Planning to suspend work on upcoming Maui island community plans and focus instead on revamping the county’s long-range planning process. “Let’s face ...

The Department of Planning is getting back on track to update Maui island’s six regional plans, but this time it’s coming with a dose of budgetary realism and more input from county departments, ...

It is a commonplace that the danger of nuclear weapons is becoming more severe year by year. This is reflected in the Bulletin’s Doomsday Clock, for which the time to midnight has declined steadily ...