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  • Small housing a big issue for SM council
    Santa Maria Times Who would have thought creating small housing would be such a big job? Santa Maria's effort to create what its Community Development Department is calling Efficiency Dwelling Units - permanent apartment housing of spaces between 150 and 449 square feet - has gained the support of the public, the Planning Commission and the City Council […]
  • Questioners give Napa Pipe the once over
    Napa Valley Register About 150 residents posed questions touching on a variety of aspects of the controversial Napa Pipe project at the Napa County Planning Commission’s meeting Tuesday night. The range of queries allowed county Planning Director Hillary Gitelman and Keith Rogal, a developer backing the project, to discuss its impact on traffic, its water su […]
  • Newhall Ranch development gets final approval from L.A. County Board of Supervisors
    Los Angeles Daily News After more than a decade of delays, the first phase of the controversial Newhall Ranch development is projected to break ground in late 2013 or early 2014, after the Board of Supervisors gave the project its final approval on Tuesday. The board gave the go-ahead to build Landmark Village, the first of five communities intended to make […]