Huntington Beach leaders are considering changing how residents and local businesses ask for zoning changes on their property as a court is in the process of stripping away their power to deny new housing projects.
The court order comes after city council members have spent years fighting the state’s housing mandates and lost at every level of state and federal court in the country, with a judge revoking their power to deny most housing projects until they get a state approved housing plan in place.
[Read: Judge Orders Huntington Beach to Adopt Housing Plan]…