Bay Area housing: ‘Builder’s remedy’ bringing more urban sprawl – The Mercury News
Development continues to eat up agricultural land in Morgan Hill, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, leaving Andy’s Orchard (center left) as one of the few operating farms. But it, too, could soon become housing if a proposal submitted through the builder’s remedy goes through. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Outside Morgan Hill in southern Santa Clara County, an orchard could be razed for 320 single-family homes. On a pasture on the northern edge of Benicia, cows could give way to 1,080 houses. On a quiet, tree-lined, two-lane road cutting through…
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