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CALIFORNIA NIMBYS AREN’T LETTING THE COVID-19 CRISIS GO TO WASTE

N APRIL, THE rule-making body that oversees California’s courts issued emergency rules for the COVID-19 pandemic that included a blanket extension of deadlines for filing civil actions until 90 days after the current state of emergency ends. For housing construction, alas, this

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