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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by rcpt on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:54AM (#34913011)
It's possibly because of Prop 218. One of Howard Jarvis's more insidious laws which requires that local taxes get 2/3 of votes to pass.
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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by jxramos on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:12PM (#34914234)
that's interesting, I wonder why it never changed. Been on the books since the late 90s it sounds like.

    Ratified November 5, 1996
    Date effective November 6, 1996; 26 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_21...
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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by rcpt on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:29PM (#34914450)
HJTA is extremely powerful in California. Voting demographics skew towards anti tax property owners and they have zero problem crushing everyone else.
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