The wealthy Silicon Valley enclave of Woodside announced it was exempt from a new state housing law that allows for duplex development on single-family lots because the entire town is habitat for endangered cougars. The Attorney General said no way.
Woodside's plan to declare itself a mountain lion sanctuary as a way to avoid having to build more housing is against the law, the state attorney general said. Allie Rasmus reports A California town’s plan to declare itself a mountain lion sanctuary as a way to avoid having to build more housing is against the law, the state attorney general said Sunday.
"This broad, categorical, absolute declaration that the entire town of Woodside is somehow a mountain lion habitat is rather remarkable," Bonta said on Sunday at a virtual news conference. "They are saying quite literally that the roads that automobiles drive on, that homes people live in that those places are a mountain lion habitat.
"This memorandum is — quite clearly — contrary to the law, and ironically, contrary to the best interests of the mountain lions the town claims to want to protect," Bonta added in his letter. "My message to Woodside is simple: Act in good faith, follow the law, and do your part to increase the housing supply. If you don’t, my office won’t stand idly by."
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