The California Building Industry Association has filed a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court seeking review of the California Supreme Court’s recent decision in California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose, 61 Cal. 4th 435 (2015). In that decision, the California high court upheld San Jose’s affordable housing ordinance, rejecting the building industry’s argument that requirements imposed on new development to provide affordable housing bore no reasonable relationship to the impact of the development. (Our report on the California Supreme Court decision is available here).
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