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Residents urge stronger community‑plan protections; counsel outlines limits on charter power over RHNA
Summary
Public commenters asked the committee to amend Placer’s charter to strengthen community plans and to direct the county to challenge RHNA allocations; county counsel warned that RHNA and other affordable‑housing mandates are driven by state law and may be outside charter authority.
Residents and local special‑district representatives used the committee’s public‑comment period to press for charter language that would protect community plans and give the county stronger tools to contest state housing allocation numbers.
Don Adela, speaking at the meeting, said residents feel “powerless with preserving our way of life” and asked the committee to “amend the charter to give our voices more power” so community plans are more binding and protect small‑town character.
Online, Diane Luis Alessi of the Christian Valley Park Community Services District said she had…
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