Coastal Restoration

YIMBYs and NIMBYs are battling over legislation to allow more duplexes, but some experts downplay its impact on California housing.

L.A.-area leaders were full of reasons to kill the bill. So, what's their solution to the housing crisis?

The White House move would fast-track the construction of some infrastructure projects, including pipelines, highways and airports.

Easton Point, an undeveloped 110-acre plot overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, is on the market for $110 million in Marin County.

Industry officials say the measure would effectively ban most new drilling.

After years of neglect, MacArthur Park is undergoing changes often associated with gentrification, raising concerns about the displacement of the working poor.

DOS VIENTOS UPRISING—Around 60 people gather at a meeting held Sunday at Borchard Park in Newbury Park. An attorney spoke to the group about its options for opposing the impending sale of the Miller Family YMCA and the plans to put a church in its place. BOBBY CURTIS/Acorn Newspapers Longtime patrons who say they rely on the Miller Family YMCA for their health and wellbeing have asked the Thousand Oaks City Council to intercede in the sale of the Dos Vientos site in an effort to stop the Y from shutting its doors at the end of the month. City officials explained early in their Dec. 12 meeting that because the sale of the 18,000-square-foot building on Via Las Brisas is a private-party transaction, similar to a home purchase, the city government has no authority over the matter. "We don't even have jurisdiction over that because it's a private transaction," said City Attorney Tracy Noonan, who suggested upset residents contact YMCA leadership. "We can't legally stop the sale. We can't

Hours before Hurricane Maria was set to make landfall in Puerto Rico, the electric company that supplies power to the island’s 3.4 million residents was already facing a host of problems.

Tunnels are turning the Earth into an ant farm with subterranean projects in London, New York and Los Angeles where every day miners board an earth-chewing beast that claws its way beneath the city.

From the Oregon border to Sonoma County, California's coastline is largely gorgeous because of the efforts of a few pioneers who fought off developers

A development project on the Gaviota Coast is found in and out of compliance with its creek restoration agreement.

The Trump administration has finished a new rule that rolls back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners.

The city of Huntington Beach has agreed to reconsider a twice-rejected 48-unit development proposed for the northeast corner of Beach Boulevard and Ellis Avenue, bringing litigation to at least a temporary halt.

In "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn" Mike Davis pointed out how the ecology of the Santa Monica Mountains means it all burns every 20 to 25 years. He was terribly right.

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The development of a long-discussed planned community in northern L.A. County faced renewed debate Wednesday at a public hearing of the Regional Planning Commission. 

Turkey announced on Monday the route for a planned canal that would reduce shipping traffic on the busy Bosphorus Strait…

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Ramlet al-Baida is the latest battleground in the fight between Beirutis and authorities over public space in the city, as developers there build “an exclusive community by the sea.”

At its peak in the 1930’s, sugar employed 50,000 people across the islands.