Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus

Opinion

FRANSON, J.

INTRODUCTION

Government Code section 65589.51 is known as the Housing Accountability Act (see § 65589.5, subd. (o)), and has been referred to colloquially as the “ ‘Anti NIMBY’ law.”2 (Schellinger Brothers v. City of Sebastopol (2009) 179 Cal.App.4th 1245, 1253, fn. 9 [102 Cal.Rptr.3d 394].) The purpose of the *1069statute is to limit the ability of local governments to “reject or make infeasible housing developments . . . without a thorough analysis of the economic, social, and environmental effects of the action . . . .” (§ 65589.5, subd. (b).) Subdivision (j) of the statute…