Development continues to eat up agricultural land in Morgan Hill, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, leaving Andy’s Orchard as one of the few operating farms. But it, too, could soon become housing if a proposal submitted through the builder’s remedy goes through. Outside Morgan Hill in southern Santa Clara County, an orchard could be razed for 320 single-family homes. On a pasture on the northern edge of Benicia, cows could give way to 1,080 houses.
“Certainly, this is not what housing advocates were thinking would happen,” said Jordan Grimes, who works on sustainable housing policy at the Greenbelt Alliance, a climate-focused nonprofit. “We know the state has a goal of wanting to have more housing, but they also have a goal of protecting more open space,” Kaufman said.
Now, rather than being able to plan for where new houses go, the builder’s remedy is forcing new haphazard development, he said. Robin Baral, a land use attorney with Hanson Bridgett, is working on several projects in Santa Clara County.
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