La Cañada Flintridge – 600 Foothill Blvd

by | Sep 12, 2023

La Canada Flintridge, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, has violated state law by refusing to approve construction of an 80-unit apartment complex that set aside 20% of its units as affordable.  Our lawsuit aims to bring the City into compliance with state law, and...

8041 Ellis Avenue, Huntington Beach

by | Jun 12, 2020

Starting back in 2010, the City of Huntington Beach enacted the Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan which designated the area around the intersection of Beach Boulevard, Ellis Avenue, and Main Street as high-density housing. Huntington Beach would later revise...

Los Altos – 40 North Main St.

by | Jul 22, 2019

In late 2018, a developer in Los Altos took a discretionary project that had been denied by the Los Altos City Council and reworked it to qualify for ministerial approval under SB 35. The project, which had initially been entirely office space was converted to a...

Calabasas ADU Ordinance

by | May 29, 2019

California has millions of garages. Most single family areas have zoning rules requiring one or two parking covered parking spaces per single-family home. This vast underutilized space has the potential to provide housing for millions of renters in some of the most...

San Francisco’s ADU Ordinance

by | Dec 7, 2018

Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have the potential to provide a rare and valuable source of rental housing in San Francisco’s single-family neighborhoods. The current San Francisco rules, however, make it very difficult for homeowners to add ADUs on...