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Council declines to advance Neighborhood Voices constitutional amendment without more details after hours of public testimony
Summary
After public testimony on a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at restoring local land‑use control, Carlsbad City Council declined to move forward with a city endorsement and voted down a motion to ask staff to return with a supporting resolution.
Carlsbad City Council heard more than a dozen public speakers both supporting and questioning a proposed constitutional amendment called Our Neighborhood Voices (ONV), which would seek to restore or preserve local control of land‑use decisions in the face of state housing mandates. After debate the council did not adopt a resolution of support and a motion to direct staff to bring back a supportive resolution failed.
Proponents called the initiative a way to prevent state preemption of local planning authority. Martin Danner, president of the Equitable Land Use Alliance, and several other…
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