Yorba Linda inches closer to certified housing plan amid builder’s remedy threat

Yorba Linda is moving to shore up its state-certified housing plan before California does it for them. The Yorba Linda City Council approved the final four programs needed to complete its 2021-29 housing element, aiming to avoid the legal and financial consequences that have increasingly confronted cities falling behind on state housing mandates, Voice of O.C. reported.  The package includes a lot consolidation incentive ordinance intended to encourage multifamily affordable housing on underutilized sites; updates to affordable housing density bonuses, regulations governing supportive, transitional and emergency housing; a streamlined entitlement process for qualifying affordable projects; and a new reasonable accommodation […]

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