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.
Huntington Beach City Council votes against suing the state over mandated housing numbers
The Elan Huntington Beach luxury apartments, at the southeast corner of Beach Boulevard and Ellis Avenue in Huntington Beach, were completed in 2016. The City Council on Monday night elected not to pursue legal action over the state’s mandate to zone for more than 13,000 units during the current cycle.
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The Huntington Beach City Council on Monday night decided not to move forward with legal action challenging its state-mandated Regional Housing Needs Assessment requirements for the next cycle, which runs through October 2029.
Huntington Beach is required to zone for 13,386 residential units, according to the Southern California Assn. of Governments, during the upcoming sixth cycle of the housing element that starts this October. That number includes nearly 6,000 units deemed to be either very low income or low income.
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The Long Beach City Council and the public got its first extended look at a housing policy that could determine where future density and affordable housing is located, sparking some early opposition to the fact that much of East Long Beach could be left untouched.
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Long Beach needs to make room for 26,502 units over the next eight years, according to the latest Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) approved by the Southern California Association of Governments in March. And nearly 60% of those units need to be affordable.
The city met just 17% of its affordable housing needs during the last RHNA allocation cycle.
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