News Summary

• Proposals 2 and 3 create a fast-track review process for publicly financed affordable-housing projects and cut down the time to review smaller projects.
• The measures curtail the City Council’s input on land-use decisions, removing them from the review process and ending the practice of member deference.
• The City Council swiftly condemned the proposed measures and moved to defeat them, first attempting to block the questions from appearing on the ballot and later launching a campaign that spent more than $1.5 million on mailers.