The city finally approved its 2021-2029 housing element. But compliance depends on whether a judge and HCD will accept a vastly increased overlay system.
Affordable housing developers say it helps them. But economic development folks say it hurts their efforts and may actually decrease the amount of housing built.
In a case from Los Angeles, a judge ruled that just because the transportation commission oversees parking on a city lot, that doesn't mean it can deny approval of an affordable housing project on tha
