City May Bid To Buy Land ; Council Leader Wants Foothills Property
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By DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer  The city of Albuquerque would spend up to $650,000 to preserve a chunk of land in the Sandia foothills under a resolution sponsored by City Council President Martin Heinrich.
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By Mike Lee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Dec. 13--FORT WORTH -- The City Council edged Tuesday night toward supporting a proposal to preserve nearly 2,000 acres of prairie in southwest Tarrant County from development.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb.
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By Aaron Burgin, The Porterville Recorder, Calif.  Feb. 3--TULARE -- Several government officials on Friday urged public  involvement in the planning of two documents that will guide growth in the  Valley and the county for the next 50 years.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 14--GILROY -- Developers, landowners and South County officials have  convinced a regional land-use agency to delay a policy that could limit the  growth of Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 10--The developer of a prized piece of the Tucson Mountain foothills says he's going to save 70 percent of the property and not move any of its hundreds of saguaros off it.
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For years, Dorothy English, 92, has wanted to subdivide and perhaps sell off the 19 acres she owns in the scenic hills 20 minutes from downtown Portland. But some of the strictest zoning restrictions in America prevented her from doing so. Now, she and thousands of Oregon property owners like her could well get their way when a new voter-passed state law takes effect on Thursday.
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By R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 19--AUSTIN -- Even as controversy mounted over the possible sale of Eagle Mountain Lake parkland to developers, state officials were taking steps to auction off two more tracts, including land adjacent to a popular park in Austin.
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Exploring a long-shot development proposition, an Orange County city manager went tribe-shopping this summer and found one in North County.
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By Rob O'Dell, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 14--Eastbourne Investments Ltd. and the City Council had tense back-and-forth negotiations this summer on whether the developer would bring a big-box store to the South Side.
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By Stephen Wall, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep. 9--LOMA LINDA -- A slow-growth group that has fought to prevent  hillside development has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the City  Council's approval of the new General Plan.
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By Tim Ellis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 14--Residents of Tucson's far Southeast Side and others who oppose a plan to mine in Davidson Canyon are pondering their next move after a couple of recent setbacks.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 7--GILROY -- A group of Hecker Pass landowners are dangling $2  million before city leaders in hopes of fast-tracking construction of hundreds  of homes on farmland and hillsides in west Gilroy.
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By Kerry Cavanaugh, Daily News, Los Angeles  Feb. 26--Since development is one of the most contentious and pressing  issues in the city, the Los Angeles Planning Department and neighborhood  councils have launched a pilot program to give communities a greater say in  land-use decisions.
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Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams will try to get financing for a Major League Baseball stadium back on the city council agenda next week after the council
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By David Bracken, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 16--FUQUAY-VARINA -- Developer Bill Akins doesn't mind being one of the first to bet on downtown Fuquay-Varina's re-emergence; he just hopes to eventually have some company.