Cal Weeks, policy director for housing advocacy group Generation Housing, said “from Day 1” city officials have been “transparent” in seeking to limit the implementation of the new law.
“Comments (from planning commissioners in recent meetings) smack of anti-housing sentiments that seek to protect vested interests in the community,” Weeks said. “The effort to thwart SB 9 is particularly concerning given equity issues, as well.”
Jim McFadden, of the Sonoma Valley Housing Group, said the deed restrictions place unnecessary limitations on the creation of “missing middle” housing.
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