California housing shortage sets up battle over land-use control

By Dan Walters in The Sacramento Bee

May 22, 2016

Once upon a time, California city officials used two tools to shape how their communities evolved – setting property tax rates and controlling land use.

The former vanished when voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978, not only cutting property taxes by more than half, but sharply limiting future tax bites.
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