#land-use

#land-use

Removing the Council from these processes would undermine accountability, silence local voices, and ultimately lead to worse outcomes for the very communities we all seek to serve.

"We are very pleased to have had the opportunity to collaborate with the previous landowner to have achieved such a positive outcome," said Gordon Clark, president of the Peninsula Open Space Trust.

The first discussion a potential ULURP applicant should typically have is with relevant staff from the Department of City Planning to discuss land use rationale.

The bill would set a 90-day deadline for decisions on housing applications in urban areas and ease design review requirements, aimed to expedite land use.

I have strong doubts that warehouses of the magnitude that have come upon us here can be accommodated anywhere in Irvine, Mayor Larry Agran said during a recent City Council meeting. That's basically five Costcos of warehousing with approaching 100 loading docks for trucks to come and go. This seems to me so out of scale that we probably ought to have a prohibition on that kind of thing.

Harrison-Buck and her colleagues calculated that at its peak, the system could have produced enough fish each year to feed around 15,000 people.