For the past two years, California has been imposing builder's remedy zoning overrides on cities that fail to adopt eight-year housing element plans in compliance with goals mandated by the state for building new housing units.
In March 2023, the state filed a lawsuit against Huntington Beach aiming to force the SoCal city to comply with the housing law.
In May of this year, Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal ruled that Huntington Beach violated state law when it failed to adopt a compliant housing element plan allowing 13,368 new housing units to be built in the city this decade. In July, Bacal gave Huntington Beach a year to update its housing plan.
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