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27 Time to read: about 2 minutes State lawmakers have decided that they know better than the rest of us how we should live. That is the message Sacramento is sending with dozens of legislative bills that, if passed, will all but destroy local control over housing and development. Your community's future will no longer be determined by you and your local elected representatives, but by developers and speculators armed with money and state laws that empower them to control local land use. Pleasanton Vice Mayor Julie Testa. (Contributed photo) The state-mandated housing requirements are unreali...

Council members spar over dubious RHNA presentation Enander The majority of the Los Altos City Council accused Vice Mayor Anita Enander and Councilmember Lynette Lee Eng of doing an end-around at Tuesday’s meeting by presenting a housing analysis from a nonprofit policy group that three council members had already rejected as controversial. Mayor Neysa Fligor and fellow council members Jonathan Weinberg and Sally Meadows were clearly exasperated over what was intended to be a presentation from Enander about crafting a city response to the state’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RH...