With such existential threats to all residents’ quality of life and financial well-being (renter and homeowner alike), where is our city leadership?  Why was there no formal appeal of the allocations during the appeal window?  Where is the coalition-building with other similarly impacted cities?  Rather than spending $10M to $20M fighting AGAINST its own residents in the district lawsuit, imagine if the city had used a fraction of those resources fighting FOR the residents by, for example, participating in a coalition with other cities to sponsor a ballot initiative prohibiting state control of local land use.  

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