Residents of Alviso are frustrated as a 780-unit affordable housing development moves forward under California's Builder's Remedy law, bypassing local General Plan and zoning regulations. The law strips the city of its local control, compelling San Jose officials to advance the plan despite the objections that it contradicts the area's master plan. Longtime residents argue that the proposal threatens the integrity of their historic community and that they deserve better than what they perceive as a harmful double cross regarding local development.
You've got to be honorable and stop this nonsense of destroying a beautiful community that was a city in 1852, longtime resident Richard Santos said.
Despite residents' ire at the city, San Jose's hands are tied due to state law, which, in effect, strips the government of local control over its zoning rules for this project.
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