As some coastal towns in California are forced to build more housing while some rural areas are escaping the state’s aggressive housing laws, some local leaders are taking a stand to stop high density development from altering their suburban idyllic beach towns.
“The state’s basically coming in with these housing mandates and saying, hey, local city councils you can’t exercise the discretion that the voters vested you with, you have to make the decisions we tell you to make,” Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates said on a recent episode of EpochTV’s California Insider.
Of concern to Gates is what’s known as a Regional Housing Needs Assessment, or better known as RHNA, which requires Huntington Beach to zone for 13,368 units of housing in the 2021 through 2029 planning cycle….