Davis v. City of Berkeley

Opinion

KENNARD, J.

The California Constitution requires voter approval of any low-rent housing project before its development, construction, or acquisition by a state or local public agency. The issue here is whether this constitutional requirement is satisfied by voter approval of a ballot measure that specifies the maximum number of low-rent housing units to be *231developed, acquired, or constructed but provides no other information about ithe proposed project.

To decide this issue, we must construe the language of article XXXIV, section 1, of the California Constitution (hereafter article…