Sprawl Wars: How the anti-growth wrath grew in 2017

Please don’t simply blame “Sacramento lawmakers” for why it’s so hard to build in Orange County.
There are plenty of fingers to point closer to home! Just ponder the roughhouse play we saw locally in the development game alone in 2017, what I’m calling “Sprawl Wars.”
Look, the development process has always been a full-contact sport around here. Traditionally the not-in-my-backyard targets are projects that have certain traits: like facilities that serve