California lawmakers have passed a flurry of high-profile bills in recent years aimed at spurring home building by eliminating local development restrictions to combat a housing shortage built up over decades.
But of those legislative efforts, it’s the state’s density bonus law that developers have mostly taken advantage of, according to a new report by Circulate Planning & Policy, a development and transportation advocacy group.
The law, which lets developers exceed density and other development restrictions if they reserve some units for low-income tenants, wasn’t always as powerful as it is now. State lawmakers have bolstered it multiple times in recent years — and many of those reforms came from San Diego lawmakers…