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Huntington Beach leaders say they'll challenge housing mandates
The brave people of one California city are fighting with all they have against Newsom's plan to turn coastal California into a socialist paradise of crowded high rise tenements with no thought whatsoever to the wishes of the people who live there or the infrastructure. It's gonna look like the Bronx if Newsom has his way. And, of course, none of poor, public school educated, tenement dwellers will know what it's like to own private property. They'll be good [ICRegister] Huntington Beach officials say they are taking a stand for local control as they square off against state leaders in a dispute over housing goals for the coastal town. On Tuesday, Feb. 14, Mayor Tony Strickland, Councilman Casey McKeon and City Attorney Micheal Gates told a crowd of residents and reporters gathered at City Hall they will contest state mandates requiring city leaders to plan for 13,000 more housing units over the next several years — it’s the city’s allocation in state housing plans to meet future needs. They also said they are on board with a proposed law before the Planning Commission this week that would to exempt Huntington Beach from the so-called builder’s remedy provision of the state’s Housing Accountability Act. Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-02-21 |
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