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CITY COUNCILS CARLSBAD The Carlsbad City Council will meet in closed session at 2:30 p.m.

LIVERMORE — A project proposed for the Downtown Core will go before the council next week in a meeting that could span more than one day. Livermore Mayor Bob Woerner said at a recent council  session that the May 24 hearing for Eden Housing — the 130-unit, four-story affordable housing project proposed for the city’s downtown core — could take more than one day due to the anticipated number of public speakers.  The housing complex has seen its share of controversy with...

After the collapse of the California Senate’s 2020 Housing Package in November of last year, the seeds of a new attack on the will of Californians to determine their own local housing policy were planted at the end of the last session of the Legislature. The failure to pass SB902 was the third strike in Sen. Scott Wiener’s attempts to end single-family zoning in California as a means to punish single-family residents and enable developers to profit by meeting demand for market rate housing ...

Homelessness Now Kills More Angelenos than Homicide – Options to Address the Housing Emergency Details 28 January 2021 PLANNING WATCH-In recent weeks, many CityWatch columns have discussed the worsening housing crisis, not just in LA, but across this large country. One reader asked what else can be done beyond ambitious proposals to restore HUD and CRA public housing programs and reduce economic inequality and poverty, two leading causes of the housing c...

January 26, 2021 For more than forty years, California’s Density Bonus Law (Government Code Section  65915 et seq.) has been a mechanism to encourage developers to incorporate affordable units within a residential project in exchange for density bonuses and relief from other base development standards. Effective as of January 1, 2021, Assembly Bill 2345 (“AB 2345”) amends the Density Bonus Law to expand and enhance development incentives for projects with affordable and senior housing...

Big Bamboozle #2 – How LA Hopes to Extend a Real Estate Boom and Hold off its Eventual Bust Details big bamboozle, a cavalier exercise to reverse engineer zone changes that further enrich real estate speculators already profiting from a housing boom.  It only took a week for hard evidence to appear that confirms this analysis. It is tucked away in the Notice of Preparation (NOP) and supportive Initial Study for the Housing Element’s Environmental Impact Review (...

“My first impression of this project is it’s really kind of brilliant,” Commissioner Kevin Doyle said. Commission Chairman Bruce Ehlers compared the project to the city’s iconic, historic Olivenhain Meeting Hall, saying it “has the possibility to be a defining location in the community for 50 years or more.” Commissioner Brett Farrow said it was “something we’ve all been seeking” and praised it for being a homegrown idea put forward by two Encinitas residents. Commissioner S...

Encinitas Council approves changes to density bonuses for housing projects [The San Diego Union-Tribune] The Encinitas City Council gave final approval Wednesday to new rules for higher-density housing projects that receive special city building code exemptions under a state law. The state’s Density Bonus Law, which was initially enacted in the 1970s and has undergone repeated revisions in recent years, aims to encourage the construction of low-income housing by allowing developers to put mor...

Print The Encinitas City Council gave final approval Wednesday to new rules for higher-density housing projects that receive special city building code exemptions under a state law. The state’s Density Bonus Law, which was initially enacted in the 1970s and has undergone repeated revisions in recent years, aims to encourage the construction of low-income housing by allowing developers to put more homes than would normally be allowed on a given lot, if they agree to designate some of their pro...