California's Laws to Prevent Housing Construction

The Orange County Register reports on anti-growth California :

the harm of lawsuits brought under the California Environmental Quality Act. “Costly and expensive, CEQA lawsuits can delay a development for years and/or make the development financially infeasible,” the report notes, citing separate studies showing that residential developments accounted for large percentages of CEQA lawsuits. Statewide, according to a report by law firm Holland & Knight, one in five CEQA lawsuits are targeted toward residential developments. In Southern California, this proportion reaches one in three.

Other problems include ballot box zoning, community opposition to development, multilayered discretionary reviews, high impact fees and the inadequacy of many local planning departments to develop planning documents in a timely fashion.

The longer these problems persist, the more expensive life in California will continue to be, and the more difficult it will be to resolve.

The war on the middle class in California.