Ask most Californians to name the law that actually decides what gets built in their state — a subdivision, a transmission line, a warehouse, a corner grocery's expansion — and the California Environmental Quality Act is unlikely to come up. […]
California voters decide on November 3 whether to rewrite how the state's signature environmental law actually works in practice, and the honest answer to what it would do for social liberty is not a clean yes or no. Proposition 45 […]
Ask why a given American city sorts land into "single-family residential," "commercial," and "industrial," and the honest answer is rarely a planning theory. It's history, mostly forgotten, doing the work a theory is usually credited with. […]