By Tom Elias : yahoo – excerpt
We can save our Neighborhoods
Our Neighborhood Voices got it done!On the same early July day that California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta issued a stern warning to cities and counties around the state about alleged misuse of local ‘urgency’ zoning rules designed to frustrate the increased housing density laws Bonta loves to push, the rebellion against those very laws formally began… This happened when Bonta’s own office received a new initiative designed to make local governments ? not the state ? supreme in setting housing policies and patterns… the new initiative states its purpose is to ‘protect the ability of local communities to make land use planning and zoning decisions,’ that ‘one size does not fit all’ and that ‘local land use planning or zoning initiatives approved by voters shall not be nullified or superseded by state law…(more) |
