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CHAPTERS AT A GLANCE |
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Part One: The California Landscape |
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1 Introduction: How Planning in California Really Works
2 The Californias 3 The Emergence of Urban Planning and Land Use Regulations in California |
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Part Two: The Local Planning Process |
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4 The Structure of Planning Decision-Making Part 1: Local Governments
5 The Structure of Planning Decision-Making Part 2: Other Players in the Process 6 The Basic Tools Part 1: The General Plan 7 The Basic Tools Part 2: Zoning Ordinances and Development Codes 8 The Basic Tools Part 3: The Subdivision Map Act 9 The California Environmental Quality Act |
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Part Three: Local Planning—Advanced Techniques and Backlash |
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10 Exactions
11 Traditional Growth Management 12 Doing the Big Deals: Specific Plans and Development Agreements 13 The Consequences of Regulation: Land Use Regulation and Property Rights |
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Part Four: Urban Development |
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14 Economic Development
15 Redevelopment 16 Housing 17 The Emergence of “Smart Growth” 18 Urban and Environmental Design |
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Part Five: Infrastructure and Infrastructure Finance |
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19 Infrastructure and Infrastructure Finance
20 Transportation Planning and Financing 21 School Facilities Planning |
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Part Six: Natural Resources Protection |
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22 Structure of Natural Resources Protection
23 Endangered Species: Habitat Protection 24 Other Natural Resources Issues |
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Part Seven: Conclusion |
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25 Making Planning Work in California
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ABOUT THE BOOK
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Since it was first published in 1991, Guide to California Planning has
served as the authoritative textbook on city and county planning
practice throughout the state. The first book ever written that covers
all aspects of planning in a single state, Guide to California Planning
is used as a textbook in virtually every college- and graduate- level
planning program in California.
In this revised and expanded third edition, William Fulton and Paul Shigley lay out planning laws and processes in detail, and describe how planning really works in California—how cities and counties and developers and citizen groups all interact with each other on a daily basis to shape California communities and the California landscape, for better and for worse. Easy to read and understand, Guide to California Planning is far more than a textbook. It’s also an ideal tool for planning professionals, members of allied professions in the planning and development fields, and citizen activists. |
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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William Fulton is President of Solimar Research Group (www.solimar.org)
and a Senior Scholar at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development
at the University of Southern California. Mr. Fulton founded California
Planning & Development Report in 1986 and wrote the first two editions
of Guide to California Planning, published in 1991 and 1999. He has
written several other books, including The Reluctant Metropolis: The
Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles (1997) and The Regional City:
Planning for the End of Sprawl, co-authored with Peter Calthorpe
(2001). His recent work at Solimar has focused on infill development
policies in land-constrained communities. A graduate of the UCLA
Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Mr. Fulton lives in
Ventura, California with his daughter, Sara Torf-Fulton. He was elected
to the Ventura City Council in 2003.
Paul Shigley has been the Editor of California Planning & Development Report (www.cp-dr.com) since 1999. Prior to joining CP&DR, he was a newspaper reporter and editor in Northern California for 12 years, during which time he covered everything from county fair pig judging to government land use policy. More recently, his work has appeared in Governing and Planning magazines, and on the op-ed pages of The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Sacramento Bee, and the Bakersfield Californian. A graduate of California State University, Sacramento, he and his wife, Dana, live in the Shasta County community of Centerville. |
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PREFACE
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When I sat down to write the first edition of Guide to California Planning,
I used to have to coax my daughter to sleep in her crib in order
to get some peace and quiet to get the job done. As the third edition
goes to press, she is in high school–voluble, articulate, and full of
ideas about the future of California’s cities and natural landscapes.
Which means that this book has been around for a long time– long enough to see several governors come and go, to say nothing of planning fads, real estate cycles, and Internet bubbles. (I actually typed part of the first edition on a typewriter.) California has changed much during this time. The state’s population has increased by more than 6 million people with no sign of slowing down. The demographic shift during that time has been particularly dramatic, creating the first truly multi-racial, multi-ethnic state. Home prices have more than doubled and are now the highest in the country. The state is increasingly expensive, crowded, and urban in a way that was unimaginable at the time this book was first written. If, as a reader, you notice my co-author Paul Shigley and I struggling to convey the essence of this intensely urban society in this third edition, this shouldn’t be surprising. The entire planning profession in California is struggling too, to apply procedures and principles dating back to the suburban era of the 1960s and ’70s to a very different state in the 21st century. The third edition stands as a portrait of a state in flux. Nevertheless, it is our hope that the changes and updates that we have made in this edition will be valuable to all readers. When the first edition of the Guide was published, we were surprised that.it received an overwhelming reception and unexpected popularity in academic quarters. Warren Jones, founder of Solano Press Books, came to me in 1987 with the idea of writing for an audience of pro-fessionals and citizens—practicing planners and consultants, land use lawyers, newly appointed planning commissioners, angry citizen activists. Quickly, however, the Guide became a staple in planning classrooms throughout the state. This bonus has continued to pay dividends by keeping me in touch with both professors and students who have used the book over the years. Almost weekly, I am both flattered and horrified when some gray-haired, middle-aged plan-ning director comes up to tell me that he or she used this book as an undergraduate. In crafting the third edition, Paul and I focused mostly on reshaping the last hundred pages of the book—the descriptions of urban development and natural resource protection that have be-come increasingly important in the last decade. We devoted consid-erable attention to smart growth and infill housing, which have emerged only since 2000 as the major topic of conversation among planners in the state. We have also expanded the natural resource section to hint at the next generation of issues—stormwater runoff, nonpoint source pollution, total maximum daily load, and a whole of host of emerging acronyms that will bring natural resource pro-tection more deeply into the planning and replanning of urban areas in the 21st century. So, as you can see, even after all this time, understanding how planning works in California is still a struggle for us. But we hope that we have articulated the trends and processes clearly enough in this book that it won’t be a struggle for you. |
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