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Board adopts housing‑element rezonings after residents warn La Colonia could be forced to redevelop
Summary
The board approved rezonings intended to satisfy state RHNA requirements, prompting residents from La Colonia Independencia to warn the change could require lot consolidation and pose infrastructure challenges; staff said exclusion risks HCD penalties and the board carried the item with one abstention on record.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved a set of rezonings and development‑standard changes June 25 intended to meet state housing element site‑inventory requirements, despite vocal objections from residents in La Colonia Independencia and other unincorporated neighborhoods.
Residents said upzoning small, established neighborhoods would create parking and water‑service strains and was unlikely to produce the unit counts the county claims. "We live in an area that is very old… the streets are very, very…
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