A judge has ordered the Southern California city of Santee to throw out the approval of a long-planned housing project
The decision was celebrated by environmental groups that sued to stop the project, arguing that more homes would only increase the risk of fire.
Last October, a judge halted parts of the Otay Ranch project, the largest proposed housing development in San Diego County’s history, after state Attorney General Rob Bonta and others objected that it would be too prone to wildfires. Superior Court Judge Richard Whitney ruled that the county’s environmental impact report for portions of the Otay project failed to properly account for the increased risks from housing thousands of people in a fire hazard zone.
In February 2021, the attorney general’s office backed a Northern California court challenges contending Lake County officials did not account for increased wildfire risk from approving 1,400 homes, 850 hotel rooms and resort apartments at the Guenoc Valley Ranch property. The challenges come at a time when California is struggling with a persistent affordable housing and homelessness problem, though critics said the proposed upscale developments would do little to help.
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