Housing Mandates vs. Community Control — A City Under State Pressure
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Cupertino is in a sustained clash with the State of California over housing production. The city has entitled 2,929 units but issued building permits for only 368 units, leaving a shortfall of 4,220 units to meet its RHNA numbers. The situation has become legally precarious: the city is now out of compliance with the state's "No Net Loss" law (SB 166), which requires adequate affordable housing site capacity to be maintained at all times — and the city cannot meet the 180-day correction deadline, meaning it faces a year-long Housing Element amendment process, including environmental review. This has triggered contentious individual project decisions, including a 4-1 Council vote to approve 51 townhomes along Linda Vista Drive in a high fire risk area, over residents' warnings that limited evacuation routes could take more than an hour to navigate in an emergency.
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