Real Estate/Development,
Government,
Environmental & Energy
May 31, 2019
Who should control basic land use policy in California’s ongoing housing crisis?
Sweeping legislative change is vitally important, necessary and justified to strike a better balance between state and local control over land use, at least as it relates to housing development.
Bryan W. Wenter
Shareholder
Miller Starr Regalia
Email: bryan.wenter@msrlegal.com
Bryan is a member of the firm's Land Use Department. His practice centers on land use and local government law, with a particular focus on obtaining and defending land use entitlements for a wide range of development projects, including in-fill, mixed-use, residential, retail/commercial, and industrial.
California's ongoing and pernicious housing crisis has many difficult-to-fix causes, including a tax system skewed by Proposition 13, a California Environmental Quality Act prone to abuse by those with various private, non-environmental objectives, and local planning and zoning policies that make it exceedingly difficult, time-consuming, and risky to obtain approvals for new projects. And too often, local officials sworn to uphold the law either wilt in the face of vo...
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