Of the four leading candidates who responded to The Times’ inquiries — Kevin Faulconer, John Cox, Kevin Kiley and Kevin Paffrath — all said they would use the bully pulpit of the governor’s office to either reform or repeal the California Environmental Quality Act.
to house homeless people during the height of the pandemic and signing legislation that encouraged granny flat development in residential neighborhoods.
Instead of the state permitting multi-family apartment construction in single-family neighborhoods, he said “there’s a lot of land in California to build on” and pointed to the potential for new outlying communities along major highways. Housing growth should be concentrated near jobs and transit, not an hour away from urban centers “perpetuating sprawl,” he said. But projects that take years to go through the approval process cost too much money.
“I’m not going to come and say, ‘OK, here’s the list of several dozen different fees which need to be lowered to this level.’ But I will set out parameters for that debate,” he said. “I would demand action from the Legislature and if the Legislature did not act, then I’d take the matter back to voters again in 2022.
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