Failing to Submit Housing Element on Time: Delay in updating the state-mandated Housing Element has led to a proposed six-story high density apartment complex on La Paz and McIntyre Streets. Nearby residents wouldn’t need to lose sleep over this Builder’s Remedy project had our city council worked on the Housing Element update sooner like neighboring cities³. In fact, I had spoken up at a City Council Meeting warning our city council to start updating the Housing Element as I recognized other Orange County cities had already started. Essentially, we lost local zoning control because our city council didn’t do their homework on time.

Laguna Hills Districting Lawsuit: Cities and school districts across California have been receiving demand letters and subsequent lawsuits to move towards by-district elections versus at-large elections. Laguna Hills currently has at-large elections for city council seats. To date, no city in California has successfully won the ability to keep at-large elections and unfortunately these cities have lost millions of taxpayer funds losing these lawsuits. Recently, many South Orange County Cities, including Laguna Hills, received demand letters requesting a switch to by-district elections. Instead of following suit with all our neighboring cities, Laguna Hills has chosen to ignore the demand letter and has now opened itself to possibly millions of dollars in liability. Judicial precedent suggests we will lose any potential districting lawsuit, why is our city council gambling taxpayer money this way?!^{1, 2}