California is taking legal action against Huntington Beach for restricting real estate advancements

California is taking legal action against Huntington Beach, implicating the city of purposefully breaching state housing laws.

In a clear caution to other cities, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with other state authorities, berated Huntington Beach's recent housing decisions. Just a day previously, Huntington Beach councilmembers voted to extend the city's moratorium on accepting brand-new applications for accessory dwelling units and to neglect the "home builder's remedy" homebuilding procedure, which allows designers to sidestep zoning restrictions in cities without state-approved housing strategies. The ban on contractor's solution in the area will take a second vote later this month to enter into impact.

California is taking legal action against Huntington Beach over its ban on brand-new ADU applications, however officials cautioned more action might happen must the City Council continue with its strategy to oppose the home builder's treatment process.

Starting in 2017, state laws raised barriers to building secondary units on a single lot. Real estate advocates and state officials argue ADUs will assist satisfy housing goals, providing home for extended family or much required rentals, using bigger lots that were traditional in many communities.

" Huntington Beach has actually decided to slam the door in property owners' faces," Bonta said. "No one gets to decide on the laws they wish to follow."

" The laws are clear as is Huntington Beach's willful, deliberate refusal to follow them. That's why we're in court," Bonta said.

As housing objectives were handed out to cities throughout California for the number of houses-- consisting of mandates at different levels of price-- they need to plan for over the next decade, the pushback was loud and quick. However the majority of also got to work identifying in their required regional preparation where designers might develop what the state figured is required to fulfill housing requirements.

Since Feb. 9, there were 245 California cities, including 117 in Southern California that hadn't gotten their preparation signed off by the state. That opens them approximately the contractor's solution procedure, where designers can plan real estate jobs with cities having less say in what's planned.

" At the end of the day, the state's vision as it associates with housing can not be recognized anywhere else other than locally," Newsom said.

Huntington Beach, Newsom said, is not serving its neighborhood well with these real estate policies and will "lose time, taxpayer and energy dollars."

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Councilmember Pat Burns said Tuesday night in supporting an extension of the city's ban on additional ADU applications that the relaxed state provisions on their building and construction hurts the certify of life in single-family neighborhoods.

It is all "part of the resistance to the state overreach that is trying to ruin this city with overbuilding in single-family, residential neighborhoods," he said. "Sacramento thinks they can tell us how to zone our homes. And we require to resist it in any method we can."

City lawyer Michael Gates said Huntington Beach would submit a new claim today challenging the state-mandated goal of preparing for the construction of 13,368 brand-new homes by 2030. City authorities are expected to reveal the suit later on Thursday.

"If Huntington Beach's City Council bulk wants to alter the law, they are welcome to connect to their state legislators, but to date my office and I have actually not spoken with them on this issue, explaining that this is political theater of the worst kind, and a huge waste of Huntington Beach taxpayer dollars to boot," Sen. Dave Min, a Democrat who represents Huntington Beach, stated in a statement.

Personnel Writer Jeff Collins contributed to this report.

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