California's 15-bill housing package went into effect January 1, 2018. According to HCD:
“The California Department of Housing and Community Development is hosting a dedicated page of the department's website, www.hcd.ca.gov as a one-stop...
2017 Scoping Plan details how state will slash climate-changing gases
Building on the state’s success in decarbonizing its economy, the California Air Resources Board today approved a bold plan to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas em...
Join OPR and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to hear about a new resource for local governments. CARB developed the CAP-Map, an interactive web resource that is intended to help local governments learn more about other climate action p...
APA California has launched a program to provide volunteer professional planning assistance to financially constrained municipalities and community groups throughout California and Baja California.
Go here for more information and to apply....
The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research is pleased to announce the availability of the following documents related to the Guidelines Implementing the California Environmental Quality Act:
A comprehensive package of proposed amendmen...
The 2017 Legislative Session ended on September 15th after a very busy year! APA California tracked over 250 planning-related bills and lobbied on many important bills, including the 15 measures in the Governor’s Housing Package and the “sma...
The Community Planning Assistance Team (CPAT) program is off and running, having completed its first project for the City of Kingsburg. The small agricultural community, just 24 miles south of Fresno on State Highway 99, applied to CPAT to help ...
The 2017 Legislative Session will end on September 15th. APA California is continuing to actively lobby bills of concern that are still working their way towards the Governor, and supporting those that APA would like the Governor to sign.
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SB 649 passed out of the Senate after a last minute “deal” was announced to make further amendments on the leasing fees in the bill. Those amendments have yet to happen but we do expect to see them soon and are now preparing for the bill t...
