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As regular readers know, PLF is challenging a recently adopted plan that will restrict most future development in the bay area to 5% of the regions land area. Our lawsuit, filed on behalf of Bay Area Citizens---a non-profit organized by local residents---challenges the process by which the plan was adopted. Regional bureaucrats sold the plan to the ...

I'll be on The Bill Wattenburg Show Sunday at 9. We'll be talking about our lawsuit against Plan Bay Area. If you're in the San Francisco area, the show will air on Talk 910. It will also be streamed here. Update: the recording is available here. ...

Saturday's Contra Costa TImes carried this article about Plan Bay Area and the lawsuit that PLF has brought on behalf of Bay Area Citizens challenging the process by which it was adopted. Excerpt: Public policy must be made in a way that allows informed public participation. But Plan Bay Area was drafted by agenda-driven insiders. The region's ...

Last week, we explained why it's terrible policy for planners to impose their preferences on residents who have different ideas on how they should live.Over at National Review's The Corner blog, Stanley Kurtz explains that this is a nationwide problem. The bureaucratic lingo for this brand of social engineering is TOD, "transit oriented development ...

Property Rights -- The One Plan to Rule them All We filed this petition for writ of mandate in Bay Area Citizens v. Association of Bay Area Governments and Metropolitan Transportation Commission challenging a massive and amazingly intrusive land use plan called "Plan Bay Area."  This is the "one-plan-that-rules-them-all" and is designed to shove " ...

Attorneys from the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a new lawsuit this morning, on behalf of the Bay Area Citizens, challenging Plan Bay Area. The Citizens are a non-profit that supports property rights, local community control, and the environment, and opposes burdensome land-use regulation. Plan Bay Area is the first Sustainable Communities Strateg ...