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fromCity Limits
3 days ago

Land Use Will Be On the Ballot This Fall, and What Else Happened This Week in Housing

Four ballot measures aimed at speeding up affordable housing construction and eroding the City Council's powers over land use will be on the ballot in November after they survived a Board of Elections vote that could have stripped them off the ballot. After the City Council claimed that the questions were written to mislead voters about how the ballot measures would limit legislative authority on land use decisions, the Board of Elections voted unanimously Tuesday to keep the questions.
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fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

New York NIMBYs Turn Against Democracy

NYC ballot measures would bypass council member deference to speed permitting and build more affordable housing, but the council sought to block them.
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Borenstein: How to easily explain cost of California local tax measures to voters

Ballot wording for local measures often lacks clarity in explaining bond costs to taxpayers.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Borenstein: How to easily explain cost of California local tax measures to voters

Ballot wording for local measures often obscures financial implications for taxpayers, causing confusion and misinforming voters.
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fromPadailypost
3 months ago

Group to begin collecting signatures for downtown lot ballot measure

Residents of Menlo Park are initiating a ballot measure to oppose public housing development on downtown parking lots.
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fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

GOP-led states are passing new restrictions for voters to get issues on the ballot

Arkansas passed a bill imposing stricter rules on ballot measures, raising concerns over voter suppression and the ability to gather signatures.
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