Proposal aimed at keeping up with population growth would limit cities’ power over housing, handing more control to state
This article by Erin McCormick appeared in The Guardian, February 14th, 2018.
The mayor of Berkeley, California, has called it “a declaration of war”. A neighborhood group in Los Angeles said it would be akin to forcing Native Americans from their land.
Amid a desperate housing crisis, legislators in the Golden State have prompted an outcry with new proposals that threaten to take the rulebook that governs American city planning and throw it out the window.
Their proposition: reducing cities’ power to decide what gets built and putting more control into state hands. MORE…