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A controversial California housing law could get a makeover

Summary by The Mercury News

Now, some of California’s most powerful Democratic lawmakers are pushing legislation that would clear up, but also rein in, the state’s most controversial housing statute. Nearly a year and a half since a developer first used the law to propose a zoning-code-blowing project, 2024 may be the year that the builder’s remedy grows up.

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A controversial California housing law could get a makeover

2 months ago·San Jose, United States

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California’s most controversial housing law, the ‘builders remedy,’ could get a makeover

For the last two years the “builder’s remedy” has been the unruly teenager of California housing laws. Running roughshod over zoning regulations while sowing angst among local elected officials, the law lets developers build as much as they like, wherever they like, in cities and counties that have blown past deadlines to get their housing development blueprints certified by state regulators. An artist’s rendering of the 3000 Nebraska apartment …

2 months ago·Orange County, United States

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