Redondo wants to protect single family zoning to preserve single family homes such as this refurbished Victorian-style home built in 1918. Photo by Bruce Hazelton
Redondo wants to protect single family zoning to preserve single family homes such as this refurbished Victorian-style home built in 1918. Photo by Bruce Hazelton
by Rachel Reeves
The Redondo Beach City Council is continuing to push back against state lawmakers’ efforts to determine the city’s zoning and housing allocation. At its Tuesday meeting, the council unanimously agreed to advocate for the city’s right to judicially review state-mandated housing requirements and to oppose decisions about zoning made in Sacramento.
Huntington Beach Won’t Sue Over State Mandated Housing
Huntington Beach city council struck down a motion April 19 to file a lawsuit against its state-mandated housing allocation.
Councilmember Erik Peterson brought forward a motion to appeal Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and initiate a lawsuit in state court. Council voted down the motion 5-2.
“Filing this appeal is the next logical step in trying to maintain a semblance of our local control,” Peterson said during the April 19 council meeting.
“It’s a simple question accept SCAG’s ruling, or fight for our locals and our local control.”
City council members are unhappy with the state-mandated housing allocation of 13,368 units to be built by 2029 and have tried different avenues to fight it.
Housing Plan Calls for 1.5 Million New SoCal Homes
Commentary
Southern California counties, cities and jurisdictions need to provision for 1.5 million new homes throughout the next eight years.
California’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) works with local jurisdictions, analyzing population growth, job growth and transportation infrastructure to develop mandates for how many new homes jurisdictions must plan for.
The approach includes city planning as well as working with local transportation, safety and utility authorities to ensure home builders and housing developers have what they need to build 1.5 million new homes in the next eight and-a-half years.
Cities, of course, cannot force economic expansion, nor force property developers to build. Housing will only get built if the economic opportunity for the property developer exists to build. However, town planning, utility hookups, fire and safety and transportation networks all also have to exist and t
Key Points
The California Department of Housing and Community Development has released new guidelines for implementing the Surplus Land Act, which clarify when leases are subject to the terms of the Act.
Pursuant to the new guidelines, leases are not subject to Surplus Land Act when the lease involves land on which no development or demolition will occur or leases with a term that is less than five (5) years (including any extensions, amendments or options).
The new guidelines supersede draft guidelines that were released in November 2020, which specified that all leases were subject to the Surplus Land Act.
et seq.). These new guidelines provide important clarification about the types of leases that are subject to the terms of the Surplus Land Act.
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