On Wednesday, February 9, the County of San Diego Board of Supervisors approved regulations to restrict future developments on county lands. SDAR has weighed in on this issue for the past several months as previous proposals would establish a de facto moratorium on county lands at a time when our region is facing a housing crisis.
The Supervisors adopted, by a 3-2 vote, a proposal that would limit future construction to 4,025 developable units on County lands, which is significantly fewer that the approximately 19,000-unit plan approved in 2020 by the previous Board of Supervisors. Of note, the County-assigned minimal target for housing developments, known as the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), is 6,700 units. The adopted proposal would prevent the County from achieving their RHNA obligations and force more working families to look for housing opportunities in areas like Temecula, Murrieta and even across the border in Tijuana.
Today we are looking at proposals to close off land to development and all but ensure our county will be unable to meet even our minimum requirements for housing development.
– Chris Anderson, President, Greater San Diego Association of REALTORS®
Read the recent article in the San Diego Union-Tribune.