SCOPE’s lawsuit concerned a proposed subdivision (“Project”) in the Santa Clarita Valley for which Pico Canyon LLC (and later Williams Homes, Inc.) sought approval from the Los Angeles ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Sunday to waive certain environmental regulations and aid those who want to rebuild homes lost to the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area.

Bass also pointed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Recovery Center in West Los Angeles and another in Pasadena, with representatives from the city’s Department of Building ...

Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order to lift environmental regulations for rebuilding homes destroyed in the Los Angeles fires is ... Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This isn’t just ...

The order, which covers all of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, waives permitting requirements under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA ... county and city agencies to speed the ...

There are few places in the U.S. with a tougher housing market than Los Angeles, meaning there are few places where the destruction of several thousand homes would be harder to bear. By one estimate, ...

The order is likely to be the first of several permit streamlining measures issued by state, county and city agencies in the wake of the devastating fires across greater Los Angeles. Mr. Newsom's ...