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California’s Battle With Huntington Beach Over Housing Goals Heads To Court
Governor Gavin Newsom and different state leaders introduced two lawsuits in opposition to town of Huntington Seaside on Thursday morning over metropolis leaders’ battle in opposition to state mandates to construct reasonably priced housing.
“Huntington Seaside is Exhibit A with what’s mistaken with housing within the state of California,” Newsom stated at a press convention. “It is a waste of time and so they’re losing taxpayer cash.”
The state’s lawsuit comes as Surf Metropolis leaders say they’re doing all they will to “unleash,” metropolis lawyer Michael Gates to sue the state over what they criticize as complicated urbanizing housing mandates.
Huntington Seaside leaders together with Mayor Tony Strickland and Gates are set to answer the lawsuit at a press convention this afternoon at metropolis corridor.
The state’s first lawsuit, which was filed yesterday, is targeted on town’s resolution to dam the event of “granny flats,” often known as accent dwelling items or ADUs, that was permitted final month, straight blocking a state regulation generally known as SB9.
[Read: ‘Poking the Bear’: Surf City Challenges State Housing Laws and Halts Granny Flats]
“You possibly can problem the regulation in court docket, however you possibly can’t throw a regulation out the window as a result of it doesn’t go well with you,” stated Legal professional Common Rob Bonta. “The ordinance they permitted…continues to be unlawful.”
The state’s announcement comes after Surf Metropolis leaders permitted new guidelines regionally banning the state regulation generally known as builder’s treatment on Tuesday night time, which permits builders to construct housing with no metropolis’s approval if town doesn’t have a state permitted housing plan.
[Read: Huntington Beach Blocks State Housing Law, Sets Up Confrontation with CA Attorney General]
Most cities in Orange County, together with Huntington Seaside, shouldn’t have a housing plan permitted by the state.
Bonta stated that whereas the state has not sued over the builder’s treatment ban but, if town formally adopts the principles at their subsequent assembly, they may.
The 2 sides have been headed towards a authorized battle for months, with a brand new Republican majority on the Huntington Seaside Metropolis Council swearing throughout their campaigns and from the dais that their prime precedence was preventing Newsom over state housing mandates.
[Read: Republicans on Track to Retake Huntington Beach City Council]
“This is among the largest threats going through our metropolis,” stated Councilman Casey McKeon on the council’s Dec. 2022 assembly. “We’ve got to battle this with each fiber of our being.”
Council members have repeatedly stated it’s an overreach of the state to regulate native zoning, and that it’s one thing that must be left within the metropolis’s fingers.
They’ve additionally pointed to a current report from state auditors that discovered a number of flaws with the division of Housing and Neighborhood Growth’s course of for deciding the place new housing will get constructed.
[Read: CA Auditor Bashes State’s Mandated Housing Numbers, Says Process Is Flawed, Lacks Oversight]
“There’s a conflict on the auto and there’s a conflict on suburbia and so they wish to urbanize California,” stated Mayor Tony Strickland on the council’s Mar. 7 assembly. “We’ve got a checks and balances system on this nation. After we consider the state is overstepping their bounds, we now have an avenue and that avenue is the courts.”
State leaders have additionally repeatedly warned town they’re heading to a battle they will’t win, with a number of letters from the state division of Housing and Neighborhood Growth, the Legal professional Common’s workplace and repeated public statements from Newsom and Bonta themselves.
[Read: Sacramento Tells Huntington Beach To Back Off Housing Fight Against Builders’ Remedy]
“The leaders of Huntington Seaside refuse to construct their justifiable share of housing and are flagrantly breaking state regulation,” Newsom tweeted from the official governor’s account after the council’s Tuesday night time assembly. “Town has tried these antics earlier than. They misplaced then and they’re going to lose now.”
Town and state went to court docket over the identical concern in 2019, with town finally opting to settle the case in 2020.
Metropolis lawyer Michael Gates has stated it looks like town is getting picked on on the council’s final assembly.
“There are presently roughly 280 cities out of housing compliance,” Gates stated. “But Huntington Seaside is being picked on…we’re the main focus of enforcement whereas the opposite 280 cities aren’t.”
Bonta disagreed.
“They singled themselves out. They don’t seem to be the sufferer – they’re the violator of the regulation. Blatant, egregious, brazen.”
Noah Biesiada is a Voice of OC reporter and corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him at nbiesiada@voiceofoc.org or on Twitter @NBiesiada.
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California woman dies from Fresno County's first human case of rabies in more than 30 years
A California woman died of rabies after allegedly being bitten by a bat in her classroom, according to Fresno County health officials.
The woman, later identified as Leah Seneng, 60, marks the first human case of rabies in Fresno County since 1992.
“In general, rabies is a disease that affects the brain, and it is very rare. But when it develops, it can cause very serious consequences,” said Dr. Trnidad Solis, Fresno County Health Department’s deputy health officer. “It’s transmitted through saliva; it is not airborne.”
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Seneng, who was an art teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, was bitten by the bat when she was attempting to rescue it in her classroom, local outlet ABC30 reported.
She first came into contact with the bat in October, but did not display symptoms until approximately a month later, according to Fresno County health officials. She was admitted to the hospital and died four days later.
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“The most frequent route of transmission is through the bite of an animal that has rabies. With rabies, unfortunately, there is no cure. So, when symptoms develop, there is no treatment, and often when it develops, it is often fatal. So we want the public to know that prevention is key to preventing rabies infection,” Solis said.
Fresno County officials do not believe there is a threat to public health at this time, but are working with the Merced County Health Department to identify any other possible exposures and administer vaccines.
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Another batch of raw milk from a trendy California brand just tested positive for bird flu
- Two batches of raw milk from a trendy California brand have tested positive for bird flu this week.
- Bird flu has been spreading rapidly among cattle in the US.
- Experts say drinking raw milk is dangerous, and can cause food poisoning.
Another batch of raw milk just tested positive for bird flu in California.
Last Sunday, Fresno-based Raw Farm voluntarily recalled a first batch of cream top whole raw milk with a “best by” date of November 27. By Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health announced that a second batch of Raw Farm cream top, with a “best by” date of December 7 had also tested positive for bird flu, based on retail sampling.
“We’re not making a big deal about it, because it’s not a big deal,” Kaleigh Stanziani, Raw Farm’s vice president of marketing, said in a short video posted on YouTube after the farm’s first voluntary recall was announced earlier this week.
She said there had only been an indication that there might be a “trace element of something possible,” emphasizing that there had been no reported illnesses of Raw Farms cows or positive tests from the cattle.
Raw Farm owner Mark McAfee later told the LA Times that the California Department of Food and Agriculture had requested that his company “hold delivery of further products” until Friday, after conducting thorough testing of two Raw Farms and one creamery on Wednesday. (McAfee could not immediately be reached for comment by Business Insider during the Thanksgiving holiday.)
Raw milk may be helping bird flu spread — but not in the way you might think
Scientists suspect that cross-contamination of raw milk between animals may be one reason the H5N1 virus is spreading rapidly among cows in the US — and could even contribute to the human spread of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions that dairy workers might be able to contract bird flu by infected raw milk splashed into their eyes.
There is no definitive evidence yet that humans can get bird flu from drinking contaminated raw milk. Instead, health authorities generally recommend avoiding raw milk because of other serious health risks, including food poisoning with bacteria like Salmonella, E.coli, or Listeria.
There are no known health benefits of drinking raw milk. Instead, all evidence suggests that pasteurized milk is just as nutritious, and is safer to consume.
Still, raw milk has become a trendy product among some influencers. Gwenyth Paltrow says she has it in her coffee in the morning.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, says he wants the US Food and Drug Administration to stop its “war” against raw milk.
Over the summer, “Carnivore MD” Paul Saladino released a raw milk smoothie in partnership with the elite Los Angeles health foods store Erewhon featuring unpasteurized (raw) kefir from Raw Farms, and powdered beef organs.
California has some of the loosest rules around raw milk in the country; it’s generally fine for California retailers like health foods stores and grocers to sell it, raw milk products just can’t be transported across state lines, per FDA rules.
Michael Payne, a researcher at the Western Institute of Food Safety and Security, told The Guardian that people consuming Dr. Paul’s $19 smoothie were “playing Russian roulette with their health,” and ignoring pasteurization, “the single most important food safety firewall in history.”
California dairy farms have been seeing an uptick in bird flu cases since August. The state has reported 29 confirmed human cases of bird flu, and all but one of those was sourced back to cows.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of bird flu in a California child from Alameda County. The child had no known contact with infected farm animals, but may have been exposed to wild birds, the California health department said in a statement.
The child had mild symptoms and is recovering well after receiving antiviral drugs.
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