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General P. Lincoln Mitchell went as far as to call zoning laws "an advanced form of communism." [2] Others supported zoning laws for their uniform and consistent application, and believed that they would be a force of social equality. The constitutionality of zoning laws was highly debated until the ruling of Village of Euclid v.
(The Center Square) - California quietly doubled down on its termination of single family zoning, ending loopholes that allowed municipalities to block an earlier state law designed to let owners ...
2021 California Senate Bill 9 (SB 9), [1] titled the California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (HOME) Act, is a 2021 California state law which creates a legal process by which owners of certain single-family homes in single-family zoned areas may build or split homes on their property, and prohibits all cities and counties from directly interfering with those who wish to build such ...
In 1990, California amended the Housing Accountability Act (HAA, passed a decade before that) which created the state's builder's remedy process. Under the HAA, if a local municipality is not in compliance with California's housing development goals, developers are authorized to bypass that municipality's zoning laws so long as the new housing development contains at least 20% low-income ...
Sacramento, like too many cities in California, has historically dedicated most of its residential land exclusively to single family homes. Known as exclusionary zoning, this policy walks in the ...
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California state law required the city to prepare a general plan governing both land use and the development of open space land. After Dr and Ms Agins acquired 5 acres (20,000 m 2) of unimproved property zoned one house per acre, the city announced that it intended to acquire it, and issued bonds to finance the taking.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday approved two measures to slice through local zoning ordinances as the most populous state struggles with soaring home prices, an affordable housing ...