Two environmental attorneys are gearing up to force coastal cities’ hands in making way for new housing. Attorneys Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs have said they’re planning to file lawsuits against Encinitas and Del Mar over land use issues that have ended up on the ballot in both cities this November.
Two environmental attorneys are gearing up to force coastal cities’ hands in making way for new housing, as required by state law.
Attorneys Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs have said they’re planning to file lawsuits against Encinitas and Del Mar over land use issues that have ended up on the ballot in both cities this November.
Measure R in Del Mar is one of several local ballot measures across the state that would give voters the right to approve or reject projectsthat exceed the number of homes allowed on a property.
Meanwhile, Measure T in Encinitas gives the city’s residents the choice of adopting the city’s housing element – a state-required plan that all cities must have, showing where they would allow more housing to be built. Usually City Councils just adopt these plans, but Encinitas voters in 2013 approved a measure forcing all zoning changes to the ballot, which now applies even to this state-mandated plan.
Briggs is representing the Affordable Housing Coalition of San Diego County, a nonprofit that advocates for more low- and middle-income housing.