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Housing headway: County supervisors approve rezoned sites in largest Housing Element in history, with several sites identified in Orcutt
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors closed the yearslong Housing Element process by rezoning several sites to make way for the needed units. “This wasn’t something that happened overnight; this was two, three years in the making,” 4th District Supervisor Bob Nelson told the Sun on May 2. “I want to make sure that our community has a balanced approach to this, and that’s what I’m going to be advocating for.” The California Department of Housing and Community Development requires local jurisdictions to look at housing needs every eight years to identify space to develop new housing units...
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