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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The County of Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors adopted the Housing Element Update 2023-2031 during their meeting on Tuesday. While the County Board of Supervisors ...
The Coastal Housing Coalition has been advocating for workforce housing development on the South Coast for the past 20 years. To that end, the Coalition has been intimately involved in the County’s ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – On Monday, the California Department of Housing and Community Development found that the County of Santa Barbara's adopted housing element was in substantial compliance with ...
WATSONVILLE — With Watsonville’s Housing Element set to begin its sixth cycle this year, the Planning Commission took one last look at the final year of the previous Housing Element cycle before ...
On October 10, 2025, the California Court of Appeal (Second Appellate District) reversed the trial court in New Commune DTLA LLC v. City of Redondo Beach (B336042). It was ruled that the City of ...
A California court recently struck down Redondo Beach’s nearly decade-long housing plan when it upheld a local developer’s challenge of the city’s home-building blueprint. The California Courts of ...