Marin Post
Has a Sleeping Giant Awakened?
The San Francisco Standard recently published an article (“Angry San Francisco homeowners plot to kill city’s rezoning plan”) about grassroots groups in San Fran... … more »
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Los Angeles Superior Court
A win is a win but keeping it in perspective is important
On March 29, 2022, the cities of Carson, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Del Mar, and Whitter (City of Redondo Beach, et al) filed a petition for writ of mandate in Los A... … more »
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CVP
Unbounded Bullying by HCD
The stated mission of the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is to, “Promote safe, affordable homes and vibrant, inclusive, sus... … more »
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CVP
Dominican Valley Residents are Steaming Mad for Good Reason
Deep in the heart of Dominican Valley sits a unique and spectacular piece of property: one of the last remaining, large parcels of wilderness land in the Black Can... … more »
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HCD
RHNA Quotas, Unfunded Mandates, Buffer Sites, and the CA State Constitution
As more people wake up to the fact that new housing laws have forever changed the way our communities will grow and reduced the say California residents have in th... … more »
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US District Court
Huntington Beach v. Newsom, RHNA, HCD, and state housing law
The City of Huntington Beach (the “CITY”) in Southern California has been in the news recently in its battle to push back on state housing laws, the Department of ... … more »
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Richardson Terrace
Public participation: A thing of the past?
In the past few months, Marin has seen several oversized, multifamily, “urban infill” projects sail through the approval process with little opposition by planning... … more »
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Legacy Part 1
A Legacy of Flawed Housing Policy -- PART 1: The demise of local control
In the late 1990s, in Marin County, we started to hear rumblings about ‘regional governance’ and how the San Francisco Bay Area’s Association of Regional Governm... … more »
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Southpark
The California State Legislature is beating a dead horse
Since the passage of Senator Darryl Steinberg’s Senate Bill 375 in 2008 -- the legislation that claimed, without the benefit of any credible science, that high-d... … more »
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CVP
Housing Development and Wildfire Risks in Marin
After more than a decade of capitulating to the state’s the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) quotas that are doled out by the Association of Bay Area Gover... … more »