Last month, the federal government awarded the city of Sacramento $135 million to expand Sacramento’s light rail transportation. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administration head Peter Rogoff, made the trip to Sacramento to make the formal announcement. The Blue Line expansion will be 4.3 miles connecting south Sacramento to downtown and north…
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San Bernardino County is considering solving its residents’ real estate woes by asserting its power of eminent domain to take distressed mortgages for the purpose of preventing foreclosures. Such action would be unprecedented. And the controversial idea is eliciting scrutiny and strong negative reactions from many in the real estate and financial industries, who have…
The State Senate has narrowly voted to approve the release of bond money for the first stretch of high-speed rail from south of Madera to north of Bakersfield. (Read more about the vote here.) At stake for property owners on the section of line between Merced and Fresno are up to 213 homes and up to…
The Central Valley Flood Protection Board met on January 27, 2012 to receive a presentation by the California Department of Water Resources regarding the draft Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (“CVFPP”). The Board will be rapidly reviewing and revising the draft CVFPP to meet the July 1, 2012 adoption deadline. It will meet next on…
