California has rejected Berkeley's housing growth plan, which the university town submitted just before the Jan. 31 deadline set by the state.
This apparently will put Berkeley in the same category as a bevy of Bay Area cities that failed to submit plans before the deadline—as in failure to comply—in danger of having the state impose "builder's remedy" zoning overrides and a loss of state funding for housing and other grants.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (CHD) decides which cities have failed to comply—last week, the CHD approved San Francisco's plan to build 82,000 new homes (more than half of which will be affordable) in the next eight years, an approval announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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