Tag Archives: Housing

City of Newport Beach – Housing Units Mandate

Where will the City of Newport Beach place the 4,845 new Housing Units mandated by the State? The city is currently amending the City’s Land Use Element, adding a Housing Overlay Zoning District citywide, and adopting new design standards to provide for the new housing units. How will the city do that and maintain the…
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Who Should Elect our Mayor?

Who Should Elect our Mayor? Measure B, on the June 7th ballot, proposes changing the present system of the city council electing the mayor to a one-year term annually to one in which the general electorate elects the mayor for a four-year term. Mayor Pro Tem Noah Blom will present the case for supporting Measure…
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Are You Going to Have a Fourplex Next Door to You?

Are You Going to Have a Fourplex Next Door to You? Senate Bill 9 was signed into law by Governor Newsom which allows up to four housing units to be constructed on a single-family zoned lot. Will your neighbors sell to a developer or construct one themselves? The zoom webinars have been so successful during…
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Changes to Newport Beach Trash Collection

New Changes Coming to Newport Beach Trash Collection, Are You Ready? New State Laws Mandate That Newport Beach Enact Stricter Trash Collection Procedures Including Strict Enforcement Speak Up Newport is currently unable to hold its normal programs at the Civic Center so we will host this sixteenth in a series of special programs via a…
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Traffic Problems & Congestion Coming?

Traffic Problems & Congestion Coming? With 4,834 new housing units where is all that additional traffic going to go? Speak Up Newport is currently unable to hold its normal programs at the Civic Center so we will host this fifteenth in a series of special programs via a Zoom Meeting Webinar. The City is updating…
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