Slow-Growthers Fail To Stop Changes In Carlsbad Growth Management Law

William Fulton
Dec 21, 2025
3 min read

Updated: 5 days ago

Carlsbad’s growth management plan – dating from the 1980s – is often held up as a model of integrating private residential growth with public infrastructure. (It’s even highlighted in Guide To California Planning.) Times have changed in the last 40 years and local growth control advocates say the Carlsbad City Council has not stuck to the spirit of the initiative. But the growth control folks keep losing in court.

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