Check out the Department of City Planning’s new online Zoning Resolution. Zoning is a set of laws that ... like setbacks (when a building has a narrower base at an upper floor). La demanda se centra ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...

A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been.” Written and illustrated by Jake Berman. University of ...

We’ve seen dozens of bills on wildfires — and not a lot on energy affordability or other issues lawmakers said they’d prioritize before the Los Angeles fires.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants to allow certain homeowners to add extra dwellings in their backyards, attics, and ...

After a hearing last week held by the city zoning examiner, the recommendation is to change the zoning to allow Casita Village at La Mariposa ... conditional letter of map revision in support ...

Coverage of the fires ravaging Altadena, Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, including stories about the devastation, issues firefighters faced and the weather.

A POLITICO analysis found roughly a quarter of all large metro areas face both housing shortages and high flood risk.

Los Angeles County keeps building in hillisides and canyons even as the fire risk worsen. For a century, the lure of ...

During that time, Honduras didn't have an architecture school yet, and most of the local architects like himself had been ...

Map: See where the major ... County near Topanga, and the city of Malibu. Hudson explained that Los Angeles County and Malibu jurisdictions have local coastal zoning programs certified by the ...