[quote=sdsurfer]Thanks for posting! I’ll have to read through the whole thing, but skimmed through a bit and there is a ton of data in there relating to demand. It’s interesting what they say about all the job creation in North County without new homes for those people to live in which might lead to longer commutes for some or they’ll have to live in multifamily, but then there seems to be a bit of doubt as to if the multifamily units will actually get built too.[/quote]In cities, any permitted multifamily projects will likely be properly zoned infill (meaning a bldg will have to be demolished to build the project on the same lot).
If an area is already zoned residential for SFRs, I don’t see multifamily projects getting built in that area/subdivision, unless it was permitted long ago and the land was reserved for this use.
No single family homeowner in CA (especially one whose residence is in a coastal county) is going to vote to approve a multifamily project in their immediate neighborhood/subdivision. Nor should they. That’s not what they signed up for when they bought their SFR in an area zoned SFR only. They will all revolt and waste the developer’s and bureaucrats’ time in hearing after hearing and the developer will walk away hundreds of thousands of dollars poorer with his/her tail between their legs. That’s the way the laws are set up in this regard. It’s never going to change …. nor should it.
We’re all wasting our time here lamenting over the end of the “Build ’em and they will come era,” and we need to seriously just get over it. Big Development’s glory days are now over in SD County, folks. Life will go on even if its population drastically shrinks. And this will only happen if there are ever mass deportations of “unauthorized immigrants.”
