Opinion: California attorney general should only start with Encinitas in push for more housing [Opinion]
Encinitas must do better. Blakespear’s initial response struck the right tone. “Less than one year after getting state approval for the city’s housing plan, the city has approved more than half of the city’s total assigned goal for the next eight years,” she told a reporter on Thursday. “We are aware of state housing laws and working diligently to stay in compliance with them.”
But like all cities, especially coastal ones, Encinitas has a large, loud group of homeowners with NIMBY views. The community group, which says it has a mailing list of more than 1,300 Encinitas and neighboring community residents, thinks state edicts are “disastrous.
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