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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Oct. 25, 2007

Freeing Development

Focus Column - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - A new ruling from the California Court of Appeal is making it easier for home developers to increase density and for low-income families to find housing.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Cecily T. Talbert
and Joshua Safran

      In a victory for affordable-housing advocates and developers, a California Court of Appeal recently upheld the broad mandatory application of the state's affordable-housing density bonus law, in Friends of Lagoon Valley v. City of Vacaville, 2007 DJDAR 13,253 (Cal. App. 1st Dist. Aug. 28, 2007).
      In Lagoon Valley, the 1s...

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