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Supreme Court leaves CDC eviction moratorium in place
Associated Press – June 29
The Supreme Court is leaving a pandemic-inspired nationwide ban on evictions in place, over the votes of four objecting conservative justices. The court on Tuesday rejected a plea by landlords to end the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium on evicting millions of tenants who are not paying rent during the coronavirus pandemic. Last week, the Biden administration extended the moratorium by a month, until the end of July.
Orange County cities sue state over ‘erroneous’ homebuilding goals
Los Angeles Daily News – June 29
Orange County cities sued the state housing department over its projected homebuilding requirements for the next decade (the so-called Regional Housing Needs Allocation or RHNA), arguing the state agency grossly overestimated the number of new residences Southern California must plan for by 2030. The state Department of Housing and Community Development determined Southern California needs 1.34 million new homes in the coming decade. The lawsuit, filed last week by the Orange County Council of Governments, said the correct number should be about 651,000 new housing units. Seventeen Orange County cities were among more than 40 Southern California jurisdictions that appealed their RHNA allocations last fall. In all but a few cases, regional officials upheld the original allocations.
Supreme Court revives lawsuit over San Francisco lifetime tenant rule
Courthouse News Service – June 28
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived a couple’s challenge of a 2013 San Francisco ordinance requiring landlords to offer lifetime leases to tenants when they convert shared multi-unit buildings into condominiums. Two owners of a tenancy-in-common sued San Francisco in 2017, alleging that the lifetime lease requirement amounts to an unconstitutional taking of their property. The high court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s claims, finding that the property owners need not exhaust administrative remedies to sue a government for unlawful taking. The only requirement is that the government decision be final, the court wrote.
South Bay cities awarded $1M each to launch green, transit projects
The San Diego Union-Tribune – June 27
Chula Vista and National City each have been awarded nearly $1 million to help jumpstart their transportation pilot programs that aim to improve mobility for its residents while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board last week announced that 21 cities, Native American tribal governments, nonprofits, and transit agencies in underserved communities were granted up to $1 million each under the inaugural Clean Mobility Options Voucher program to launch zero-emission mobility projects.
L.A. City Council authorizes loading zones for zero-emission vehicles only
NBC Los Angeles – June 29
In an effort to encourage clean renewable energy use, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday unanimously adopted an ordinance authorizing the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) to install loading zones for the "exclusive use and access by zero-emission commercial delivery vehicles." LADOT said it would identify curbside locations in areas that are high density and disproportionately burdened by air pollution.
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