California housing policy takes two steps forward and one back

The final days of the 2023 legislative session are producing new pro-housing laws that close legal loopholes often used to block or delay projects.

One, Assembly Bill 1307, aims to overcome a truly bizarre appellate court rulingthat a long-pending University of California student housing project in the famous People’s Park site in Berkeley could be stalled if UC didn’t mitigate the noise that students would make. Newsom signed the bill late last week.

The second measure, Assembly Bill 1114, would close an anti-housing loophole unique to San Francisco. City law allows an extra bite of the apple to project opponents, giving them the right to challenge building permits even after developments have cleared all other political and legal hurdles. It was an important case because once-thriving San Bernardino has fallen on hard times in recent years, clobbered by poverty, crime and urban decay. It even filed for bankruptcy a few years ago and needs all the housing it can get to climb out of its civic hole.

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