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CITY COUNCILS CARLSBAD The Carlsbad City Council will meet in closed session at 2:30 p.m.

LIVERMORE — A project proposed for the Downtown Core will go before the council next week in a meeting that could span more than one day. Livermore Mayor Bob Woerner said at a recent council  session that the May 24 hearing for Eden Housing — the 130-unit, four-story affordable housing project proposed for the city’s downtown core — could take more than one day due to the anticipated number of public speakers.  The housing complex has seen its share of controversy within the community. Those who support it want the housing now; those who oppose the plans want the hou...

After the collapse of the California Senate’s 2020 Housing Package in November of last year, the seeds of a new attack on the will of Californians to determine their own local housing policy were planted at the end of the last session of the Legislature. The failure to pass SB902 was the third strike in Sen. Scott Wiener’s attempts to end single-family zoning in California as a means to punish single-family residents and enable developers to profit by meeting demand for market rate housing in California. Wiener’s previous attempts with SB827 (2018) and SB50 (2019) also did not pass. But...

Homelessness Now Kills More Angelenos than Homicide – Options to Address the Housing Emergency Details 28 January 2021 PLANNING WATCH-In recent weeks, many CityWatch columns have discussed the worsening housing crisis, not just in LA, but across this large country. One reader asked what else can be done beyond ambitious proposals to restore HUD and CRA public housing programs and reduce economic inequality and poverty, two leading causes of the housing crisis. This is a serious question, and Brad S. Kane, President of the PICO Neighborhood Council, and...