If it fails, the City would lose local control over land use, forfeit protection over some open space, allowing developers more control, become subject to Builder's Remedy and lose access to State grant funds. If it succeeds, the City would maintain local control over zoning, planning and building, create opportunities for local business shopping and
State law takes precedence over local laws and ordinances. Measure B only applies to certain City actions to approve or reject major adjustment's to the City land use documents. In contrast, the Builder’s Remedy does not require any approval or amendment of City land use documents and indeed prevents a City from using City zoning
There are diverse views on the battle to maintain local control, but the general trend is that State mandates preempt local control and the State politics on this are trending toward more State control. Under current law and threats made by the State, here are a few likely outcomes if we fail to adopt a
