Multi-Story Referendum on the Ballot In Seal Beach?
It would appear that a Seal Beach citizens' group Save Our Seal Beach has collected enough signatures from residents to temporarily block a new city law that bans a newly adopted third-story homebuilding in the coastal area until a referendum election on the subject is decided in the next election. As the Register reports, a group of residents in the Shorecliffs community in San Clemente believed they had suceeded in qualifying a similar referendum on height limitations for construction adopted by San Clemente, but that referendum is the subject of pending litigation in Orange County Superior Court. The Court was sufficiently convinced there was enough questions about the Shorecliff's referendum that it issued an order staying any construction inconsistent with the new San Clemente law. Let's hope Save Our Seal Beach does not suffer the same fate.