Focus on Land Use, Development, Conservation and Land Trusts
Land Use Planning Information Network (state of California)
California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
CEDS Community & Environmental Defense Services
How To Win Land Development Issues and other resources for citizens
CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
CEQA Process Flow Chart - an interactive flowchart of the process that includes an EIR.
Abbott & Kindermann Land Use Specialists :
“Attention Water Suppliers and Municipalities: A Step-By-Step Guide to Implementing SB 221 and SB 610 Has Arrived”
Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Planning Publications
The Pacific Institute is dedicated to protecting our natural world, encouraging sustainable development, and improving global security.
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.
Local Planning Documents from the UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies.
All of California’s 500+ cities and counties issue planning documents. The state of California requires local jurisdictions to produce them and to update them periodically. The documents take various forms. They can be issued as consolidated general plans or as separate elements (e.g., land use, open space, housing, conservation, noise, seismic safety, transportation, etc.).
s a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national organizations advocating on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation, neighborhood revitalization and more. Our state- and regional-level members are community-based organizations working to save treasured landscapes while making our towns and cities ever more livable and lovable.