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PLEASANTON — The planning commission tried at its Dec. 14 meeting to maximize its chances of achieving Housing Element certification by the California Department of Housing & Community Development (HCD)

City, it is clear that people frankly in the elite who have made their money and homes in the city, they are making every effort to stop big housing developments, new units being built inside the city and they are succeeding and that is why the word dysfunction, while your housing situation is so dysfunctional and a thousand people living on the streets and many for us to leave because they simply cannot afford it. :, because they simply cannot afford it. . , because they simply cannot afford it...

More than two years in the making, Palo Altos ambitious plan to add more than 6,000 housing units by 2031 is finally ready for prime time.

The Pleasanton City Council and city staff have committed themselves to an aggressive December meeting schedule in order to adopt the citys new Housing Element by the statutory deadline of Jan. 31.

Palo Alto, a Silicon Valley city with a history of exclusionary zoning tactics, has produced a new Housing Element that calls for more than 6,000 housing units to be built in the city by 2031.

​​Palo Alto released on Monday its plan for adding more than 6,000 dwellings by 2031, a strategy that banks on backyard cottages, transit corridors and the conversion of industrial zones into residential communities.

The so-called “Builder’s Remedy” under the Housing Accountability Act (HAA) is punitive and applies when a local jurisdiction has not adopted a revised Housing Element in compliance...

How the state blew up its zoning codes and embraced new development. Over the past five years, state legislators have passed a raft of housing laws that completely transform urban planning in California.

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