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Editorial: Shame on SoCal leaders for backing a ballot measure to roll back housing fixes
3 years, 2 months ago

Editorial: Shame on SoCal leaders for backing a ballot measure to roll back housing fixes

LA Times  

An accessory dwelling unit is seen under construction in Santa Rosa, in 2019. The Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative is an attempt to dismantle SB 9 and other state housing laws. The proposed ballot measure says that any city or county land-use or zoning law overrides all conflicting state laws The initiative would allow cities to ignore state laws that made …

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Huntington Beach City Council votes against suing the state over mandated housing numbers
3 years, 11 months ago

Huntington Beach City Council votes against suing the state over mandated housing numbers

LA Times  

The Elan Huntington Beach luxury apartments, at the southeast corner of Beach Boulevard and Ellis Avenue in Huntington Beach, were completed in 2016. The Huntington Beach City Council on Monday night decided not to move forward with legal action challenging its state-mandated Regional Housing Needs Assessment requirements for the next cycle, which runs through October 2029. “Filing this appeal is …

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Costa Mesa joins ranks of O.C. cities appealing state housing allocations but could face an uphill battle
4 years, 5 months ago

Costa Mesa joins ranks of O.C. cities appealing state housing allocations but could face an uphill battle

LA Times  

Following the lead of other Orange County cities, Costa Mesa City Council members decided Tuesday to appeal a state housing allocation that calls for the city to plan and zone for an additional 11,733 residential units between 2021 and 2029. “I’m not against housing, but I do believe the allocation is, as a practical matter, unrealistic,” Costa Mesa Mayor Pro …

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Opinion: SoCal’s new housing plan is going to make traffic and air pollution worse for everyone
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: SoCal’s new housing plan is going to make traffic and air pollution worse for everyone

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom directed the Southern California Assn. It’s no secret that Southern California is suffering from soaring housing costs, homelessness, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions caused by a historic failure to plan for housing. Instead of making the radical changes Newsom was looking for to fight the housing crisis, SCAG’s approach is more of the same: It leaves wealthy, …

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Editorial:: SoCal leaders either haven’t gotten the memo on the housing crisis or don’t care
5 years, 9 months ago

Editorial:: SoCal leaders either haven’t gotten the memo on the housing crisis or don’t care

LA Times  

Southern California is mired in a housing affordability and homelessness crisis that is undermining the region’s quality of life and threatening its economic prosperity. The vote was required under California’s “fair-share” housing law, which instructs cities and counties to plan and zone every eight years for enough affordable and market-rate development to house their proportion of the state’s growing population. …

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Pay $4 to drive to the Westside? Congestion pricing could cut traffic gridlock, report says
6 years ago

Pay $4 to drive to the Westside? Congestion pricing could cut traffic gridlock, report says

LA Times  

A study released Thursday found that charging drivers $4 to enter a 4.3-square-mile area of the Westside, including part of the Wilshire corridor, could reduce traffic delays by 24% during peak periods. Such a drop in driving would correspond with a 9% increase in transit ridership, a 7% increase in biking and a 7% increase in walking inside the zone, …

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Huntington Beach defiant on low-income housing mandate
9 years ago

Huntington Beach defiant on low-income housing mandate

LA Times  

Michael Gates has written a letter to the state indicating Huntington Beach’s resistance to state requirements that a certain number of low-income housing units be added. When asked in an interview if that meant pursuing legal action, Gates said he did not want to speculate about what the City Council might decide to do but added that “all options are …

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California Commute: 4 stretches of freeways tally most big rig crashes per mile annually
9 years, 9 months ago

California Commute: 4 stretches of freeways tally most big rig crashes per mile annually

LA Times  

The 710 Freeway at the 60 in the East L.A. Interchange ranks among the top stretches of freeways with truck crashes per mile. “Truck accidents can have a huge impact on the economy, on human beings and on traffic congestion,” said Hasan Ikhrata, executive director of the Southern California Assn. In its latest analysis of California Highway Patrol data, SCAG …

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