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Addressing The County’s Housing Credibility Gap

By Andy Caldwell

Sep 20, 2026
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I asked the County Board of Supervisors a simple question. Why would you rezone 16,000 acres of ag land for solar panels, when CA has an excess of the same, but you won’t rezone the same amount of land for housing, considering the dearth of the same? The only answer I got was a grimace from Supervisor Laura Capps.

While the left, including Democratic soc…

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