May 2, 2023
With Elk Grove suit, state sends cities another warning over housing
“The city found that the project was not eligible for ministerial streamlined approval under Senate Bill 35 because the project did not comply with all of the city’s objective development standards,” said El Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen.
Warning policymakers are growing impatient, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced he was suing another California city on Monday, alleging it had disapproved of a low-income housing project.
The latest case claims the City of Elk Grove exercised its ostensibly objective housing standards in a discriminatory way. The complaint filed by Bonta's office claims the city improperly denied the Oak Rose housing project, a proposed 66-unit, low incom...
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