” I’m not sure they are authorized to pull this crap. “
They are authorized, all right. The STATE has injected itself into all local housing planning. Every town has to have a “Housing Element” in its city plan. The “Housing Element” must be approved by the STATE otherwise the wrath of the state will rain down on your town. Your town will face endless lawsuits from the state and developers.
Our California town on the San Francisco Peninsula got built out in the 50s and 60s. There is no land available. Prices are sky-high. The town has worked hard from its inception to be an excellent bedroom community. Then the state stuck its nose in and our most recent “Housing Element” jams “affordable” (i.e, apartments) into the town here and there. It also wiped out our Design Guidelines document which assured that new and remodeled buildings would fit into the character of the existing town. The state said that Design Guidelines drive up costs and make it hard to build affordable housing here, so we deep-sided our entire guideline. To make it worse, the Design Review Commission was abolished and one “Environmental Regulator” was given the power to pass or reject any plan brought forth. All plans are now judged solely on measurable metrics (sq ft, floor area ratios, height, etc).
There is no local control any more. It is all centralized with the communists in Sacramento.
The irony is that crap like this is what makes CA such an undesirable place any more and the state continues to lose population to other states. So who is going to need affordable housing when we lose another million or two population?
I suggest you move to a free state.
Replaced by immigrants. (Illegal and legal)
That “another million or two” WILL be made up of ILLEGAL ALIEN DRUG DEALERS, PIMPS, WHORES, THIEVES, MURDERERS, MS-13 MEMBERS, RED CHINESE SPIES, CARTEL MEMBERS, and DISEASE CARRIERS.
Shut up and build their “AFFODABLE HOUSTNG” in Beverly Hills!
The issue is not that many people are fleeing CA.
The issue is that many hard working taxpaying people are fleeing CA while illegal aliens are flooding into the state.
Of course you need to be one of those racist math geeks to figure out what that means for the future of CA—and if you do figure it out you are banned from speaking about it since that would be “hate speech” and “inciting insurrection”.
;-)