The California Housing Defense Fund filed a lawsuit challenging fees charged on new housing development enacted by the City of Los Altos. The City enacted a new set of fees in June that would charge $51.26 per square foot for new multifamily housing, and $13.89 per square foot for single

La Canada Flintridge, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, has violated state law by refusing to approve construction of an 80-unit apartment complex that set aside 20% of its units as affordable. Our lawsuit aims to bring the City into compliance with state law, and ensure the project can proceed.

On Thursday, September 15, 2022, CaRLA and co-petitioner Kenneth Shotts, a political scientist at Stanford, filed suit in Santa Clara County Superior Court to remedy the illegal downzoning in the form of increased lot requirements for the newly created Upper San Juan Residential District. These increased development standards pre-emptively preclude

On October 3, 2021, Rancho Palos Verdes (RPV) homeowners submitted an application for a 495 sq. ft. prefabricated accessory dwelling unit (ADU) to the city, only to be rejected on architectural standards that cannot legally apply to this project. This prefab unit fits well within the state’s exemption category to

Starting back in 2010, the City of Huntington Beach enacted the Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan which designated the area around the intersection of Beach Boulevard, Ellis Avenue, and Main Street as high-density housing. Huntington Beach would later revise the Specific Plan to half the number of units allowed

In late 2018, a developer in Los Altos took a discretionary project that had been denied by the Los Altos City Council and reworked it to qualify for ministerial approval under SB 35. The project, which had initially been entirely office space was converted to a mixed-use development with multiple