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The Del Mar City Council will meet in special session at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday to accept comments from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. It will discuss how to collect the missing data, revise the draft Housing Element and produce a final Housing Element by April 15 to send to the department. The council canceled a closed session that was scheduled beforehand. The council will also review the product offerings from the Clean Energy Alliance. Mayor Terry Gaasterland and Councilmember Dan Quirk will request that the council discuss options for restarting the Utility Undergrounding P
State Quotas for Housing Meet Resistance in Southern California
Cities throughout Orange County, California, are appealing state-mandated quotas to build more high-density and affordable housing. Some local officials say the quotas are too high and have been shifted unfairly from nearby counties.
Irvine, Newport Beach, Yorba Linda, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, and Mission Viejo are among the cities that have launched appeals with the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), which are scheduled to be heard through Jan. 22.
At the group’s Jan. 7 meeting, Kome Ajise, the executive director of SCAG, said the organization had received 31 letters from 48 different jurisdictions contesting the state’s “regional determination” for affordable housing.
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Happy 50th birthday to CEQA!
At its birth on Sept. 17, 1970, Gov. Ronald Regan could hardly have foreseen the revolutionary effect CEQA would have on California land use development. Beginning from the simple premise that public agencies should not approve projects if there are feasible alternatives or mitigation measures that would substantially lessen the project’s significant environmental effects, CEQA has expanded to function as the organizing process for nearly all land use projects. Throughout its teenage years and young adulthood, business leaders and developers began blaming CEQA rightly or wrongly for stymying development, while environmentalis
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