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San Diego won a big lawsuit last month over neighborhood opposition trying to stop a 20-story, 204-apartment project in Bankers Hill and it could set a precedent of great importance statewide, write Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts in the latest Politics Report.
But City Attorney Mara Elliott isn’t so sure she wants that.

The project’s size is a result of California’s “density bonus” program, which lets developers build more homes than allowed by city regulations and to bypass other restrictions if they include homes reserved for low-income residents. The neighborhood group opposing it argued that the state’s program was not a free pass.

A trial judge and now an appellate court have sided with the city. And that matters because the ruling should set a significant precedent across the state: cities have no choice but to allow developers to build at increased densities and waive any conflicting regulations once a developer agrees to put low-income units on site.

Things change fast.

https://www.woodsidetown.org/council/to ... plications

I understand that Woodside's gambit was misunderstood. The endangered species were Cougars ...

Maybe they would let me build a mountain lion rescue over there in Woodside, ya think?

CBarrett wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:52 pm Maybe they would let me build a mountain lion rescue over there in Woodside, ya think?

You may be onto something,

I surveyed adjacent to The Gorrilla Foundation in Woodside, CA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gorilla_Foundation

And also next door to the Whittell private zoo in Woodside. The neighbors told great stories of elephants and lions roaming the grounds.
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/loc ... 0a2ff.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside,_California

-JW

John Williams, PLS wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:35 am

CBarrett wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:52 pm Maybe they would let me build a mountain lion rescue over there in Woodside, ya think?

You may be onto something,

I surveyed adjacent to The Gorrilla Foundation in Woodside, CA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gorilla_Foundation

And also next door to the Whittell private zoo in Woodside. The neighbors told great stories of elephants and lions roaming the grounds.
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/loc ... 0a2ff.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside,_California

-JW

Now that I read about the town, a mountain lion and a big cat rescue is entirely plausible in the area. One would probably have to throw couple of Ligers in the mix to make it elitist enough to qualify for their interest. Maybe throw coupe 12 million dollar stuffed sharks in the mix, and an NFT picture of the whole thing.
With a proper marketing firm, of a caliber that works for Christies, and you have yourself a nice non-profit. Consevacy, greenery, art, tax write-offs and money laundering, all in one.