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The FAIR LA Housing Plan Allows Real Estate Speculators to Profit from the Housing Crisis – It’s Sophisticated Nonsense Details PLANNING WATCH-A reader asked me to review Abundant Housing’s Fair LA housing plan. It contains an elaborate formula, disconnected from the legally required planning process, to up-zone all of Los Angeles, with most up-zoning directed at affluent neighborhoods. If adopted, it would lift the zoning code’s restrictions on density, heig...

CARLSBAD The Carlsbad City Council met Tuesday to approve its election results and swear in new Councilmember Teresa Acosta and re-elected member Keith Blackburn. The council heard reports on actions and expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. An urgency ordinance regarding hotel employee recall rights was approved 4-1. The ordinance takes place immediately and requires hotels with 200 or more guest rooms to bring back workers who were furloughed or laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Key change is new system for calculating how many homes can be built