After more than a decade, one of the Bay Area’s most contentious housing battles has finally come to a close.
Over objections from neighbors who sued to halt a 315-unit apartment project slated for the East Bay suburb of Lafayette, the California Supreme Court this week declined to review a lower court’s decision that the development meets state environmental requirements and construction can begin.
Pro-housing advocates cheered the move while at the same time highlighting the 12-year fight as an example of the region’s challenges in building more desperately needed homes.
“This decision is a win for housing, but the fact that this project has taken so long is exactly