Feb 23, 2024 | Litigation, Housing
SAM RIBAKOFF
February 23, 2024
The city of Huntington Beach argued in a San Diego courtroom on Friday that California is trying to make a “political statement” with their request to kickstart the approval of building affordable housing in line with state laws as temporary relief in their lawsuit against the city.
California’s feud with Orange County’s famous coastal town over its housing laws has been bitter and multifaceted.
Jan 25, 2024 | Housing, Litigation
BY BEN CHRISTOPHER
JANUARY 25, 2024
It’s put up or shut up time for dozens of cities across the San Francisco Bay Area. Last January, local governments across the region were required to submit “housing elements” to state regulators — future development blueprints that spell out how each jurisdiction intends to make room for its share of the more than 2.5 million new homes the Newsom administration wants to see built across California by the end of the decade.
Jan 5, 2024 | Housing, Legislation, Litigation, Opinion
By TIM REDMOND
JANUARY 2, 2024
We love letters to the editor. Here’s one from someone who actually knows the answer to a question I raised:
In “Peskin, Chan want to know if SF can sue the state over impossible housing rules,” Tim Redmond asks, “Could a San Francisco citizen, or organization [as distinguished from San Francisco itself], sue? ‘That,’ said Peskin, ‘is a very good question.’”
Jan 5, 2024 | Housing, Legislation, Litigation
By TIM REDMOND
JANUARY 1, 2024
Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan are asking the city attorney for advice on whether San Francisco can sue the state to block the punitive actions set in motion by Sen. Scott Wiener’s housing bills.
Nov 4, 2023 | Housing, Litigation
By MICHAEL SLATEN
November 4, 2023
Top state officials took a legal blow in their ongoing lawsuit that accuses Huntington Beach of violating state housing laws, when a Superior Court judge halted their suit until a related federal case is decided.
A state Superior Court judge ruled Friday, Nov. 3, that the lawsuit file by the state Attorney General’s Office and California Department of Housing and Community Development must wait.
Oct 10, 2023 | Litigation, Housing
By RICHARD HALSTEAD | rhalstead@marinij.com
October 9, 2023 | UPDATED: October 10, 2023 at 5:10 a.m.
A controversial apartment project in Marin City is facing another legal challenge. The Golden Gate Village Resident Council has filed a federal lawsuit asserting that the county, in reviewing the project at 825 Drake Ave., failed to adequately comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. The law defines procedures for environmental analysis for projects that need approval by federal agencies.
