APARTMENT MORATORIUM EXTENDED.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE- A moratorium A suspension of activity or an authorized period of delay or waiting. A moratorium is sometimes agreed upon by the interested parties, or it may be authorized or imposed by operation of law. on apartment construction will continue until March 9, 2001, to give municipal staffers time to participate in a regional housing needs assessment and to help craft reform legislation. The extension was approved Wednesday night by the City Council, which wants Palmdale to continue to participate in the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Association of Government's Regional Housing Needs Assessment, a plan that must be considered in the city's housing element. The SCAG scag - To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage. Compare scrog, roach. plan, which will be finalized See finalization. only after other communities have the chance to appeal, allocates 9,878 apartment units to Palmdale through July 2005. ``We can't make a good decision until we get the final numbers,'' Councilwoman Shelley Sorsabal said. City staff members also want to work with SCAG to draft reform legislation for housing law and to update the city's design requirements for apartment construction. Additionally, workers want to determine if there is a way to maintain a specified ratio of single-family homes to apartment units. The moratorium was first enacted in March 1999 for 45 days, and was later extended until this March. The new extension is the last allowable under state law. Last month, the City Council reduced the amount of land available for high-density housing by more than 200 acres - all on the city's east side and most of it along the Avenue R corridor. Palmdale officials began looking at the amount and location of land zoned for apartments last year after a 200-unit complex proposed at Avenue R and 42nd Street East drew opposition from nearby homeowners. The apartment complex was eventually approved, but the city enacted the moratorium blocking other apartment construction to allow time to study zoning issues. The city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. has a similar moratorium in place. |
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