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Four California Cities, Redondo Beach, Carson City, Torrance and Whittier have filed a lawsuit to block the implementation of Senate Bill 9. Here are the arguments in that lawsuit. The full filing is available here. 1. Petitioners/Plaintiffs City of Redondo Beach,...
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Report finds housing goals are not supported by evidence April 6, 2022: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Candell, thecandells@comcast.net On March 17, Michael S. Tilden, the Acting California State Auditor, issued a blistering critique of the Department of...
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Palo Alto has been developing a proposed business tax, targeted for the November 2022 ballot. In Nov-Dec 2021, the City’s consultant FM3 conducted a poll of Palo Alto residents seeking to understand how they felt about such a tax and how they would like to see it...
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Are you concerned about ABAG’s concentration of jobs and housing growth in our local South Bay communities that creates high levels of congestion, pushes up extraordinarily high housing costs, increases local taxes and weakens local zoning control? This has all come...
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On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Council agenda item #2 is a review for a large mixed-use project proposed at 2951 El Camino Real and neighboring parcels. (see the Staff Report). The proposal would require re-zoning two R-1 parcels to CS or PC/PHZ and exemptions to the...
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