Oak Hill Park v. City of Antioch CA1/4

Background The city’s general plan outlines a vision for development of up to 4,000 residential dwelling units within the 2,712-acre southern portion of the city known as the Sand Creek Focus Area (focus area). Oak Hill owns vacant land in the focus area which it intends to develop for residential housing. In advance of the November 2018 election, LAVD began collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot which, if approved by the voters, would prohibit development of housing within a portion of the focus area that includes Oak Hill’s property. In June 2020, following an unsuccessful attempt by the city to adopt the initiative without an election, the city adopted a resolution placing the initiative on the November 2020 ballot. In August 2020, Oak Hill filed a petition for a writ of mandate and an ex-parte application for a temporary restraining order to prevent the placement of the initiative on the November 2020 ballot. Oak Hill argued that the initiative conflicted with the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, Government Code section 66300 et seq., which prohibits cities and counties from modifying their land use regulations to lessen the intensity of, or otherwise prohibit,…