The Battle For Local Control Of Housing Elements

27 November 2002 - 10:00am

The California State Association of Counties provided the latest battlefield in the war of words over the state housing element law.

Speaking to the County Supervisors Association of California only a few days after Dunn's fiery San Francisco speech, Mariposa County Planning Director Eric Jay Toll warned that cities and counties would be "Dunn for" if the senator had his way. He said that Dunn's plans would turn the state Department of Housing and Community Development into a regulatory agency. "Instead of implementing the existing state law," Toll said, "they want to change the law and put local governments on the run."

Source: California Planning and Development Report, November 26, 2002
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