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Excessive Regulations Seen Adding 25% To Home Cost C-10 THE SAN DIEGO UNION © Friday. April 30, 1982,
should be re-examined, said Siegan. "While farmland preservation is ostensibly designed to preserve the minimum operating size of farms, its • real purpose can be to exclude hous- ing developments from the commu- nity. The beneficiaries of large lot zon- ing usually are affluent homeowners, while lower income renters and young families pay the additional prlce," said Siegan. Most such laws are local and state in origin, but "Congress should repeal the Federal Farmland Pro- tection Policy Act of 1981 because it could have a potentially serious and detrimental impact on the cost and availability of land for housing," said Siegan. · 1 He pointed out, ''Urban develop- ment is less than 3 percent of land area in the U.S. - some say 2 per- cent, some say 4. In any case, it's not a high percentage," he said. Land-use policies, building codes and such things as the federal energy performance standard tend to inhibit housing and raise prices, said Siegan, who recommends repeal of federal energy performance standards. Among books which Siegan has au- thored or edited on these questions are "Land Use Without Zoning," "Other People's Property" and "Planning Without Prices."
the regulation should bear the bur- den for proving it complies with the foregoing standard," said the com· mittee report. Further, the committeee believes that the U.S. attorney general should look into the ramifications of the proposed "vital and pressing" stand- ard. U he concludes that the new stand- ard "strikes a balance between legit- imate governmental interest and in- dividuals' rights to private proper- ty," said the report, the attorney general should "seek an appropriate c~e for urging the Supreme Court to adopt a new test." Numerous zoning regulations in· hibit housing and add to its costs, said Siegan. Regulations on the den- sity of developments "should be left to the marketplace," he said. Restrictions on manufactured housing (such as mobile homes) should be jettisoned: The market will prevent indiscriminate placing of mobile home parks from lowering property values, said Siegan. Restrictions on the size of dwelling units and Jots, growth controls and farmland preservation controls I
- take a new look at their standards for justifying zoning restrictions. Today, governments and the courts tend to permit municipalities to enforce zoning codes any way they desire: "About anything a community wants to impose on a housing devel- opment will be satisfactory under state laws today, and there is a tend- ency by the courts to support or defer to the municipalities and states in zoning," said Siegan. "Our most innovative suggestion is a new standard for zoning regulation. A community should not be able to limit a proposed housing project or development unless it involves a vital and pressing governmental in- terest," be said. The words "vital and pressing" are key. The committee recommends that "all state and local legislatures should enact legislation providing that no zoning regulations denying or limiting the development of housing should be deemed valid unless their existence or adoption is necessary to achieve a vital and pressing govern- mental interest. In ligitation, the governmental body seeking to maintain or impose _
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ment regulation and cost of housing, while Gordon Luce, chief executive of San Diego Federal, headed the committee on housing finance. Luce was out of the city yesterday and could not be reached for com- ment on his committee's actions. The recommendations by Siegan's committee are bound to be contro- versial Already, howls are being heard on one recommendation The committee, concluding that rent con- trol inhibits the buildmg of apart- ments, recommended, in essence, that the federal government abolish it. The committee recommended that the federal government should "pre- empt application of state and local government rent controls" when a project is financed by a lender whose deposits are insured by the govern- ment or when governmental agen- cies are involved in the financing. "That's about all cases," said a smiling Siegan yesterday in an inter- view. "We also urge that states pass legislation removing the powers of counties, cities and all other jurisdic- t10ns to adopt rent control." Another recommendation certain to be controversial is the suggestion by Siegan's committee that govern- ments at all levels - and the courts
Excessive federal, state and local housing regulations - combined with th courts' permissive attitude about these intrusions - often add 25 percent to the cost of a new home, according to the report of President Reagan's Comm~ ion on Hou mg, is- ued yesterday in Washington. A San Diegan - University of San Diego D tingu1shed Professor Ber-
nard H Siegan - headed an eight- person committee of the commis- sion The committee ye:;terday recom- mended sweeping measures to ex· hrpate outdated government regu-
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Donald Bauder latory activity uch as rent control; unreasonable zoning restrictions; unnecessary en- vironmental and construction re- straints and a veritable miasma of bureaucrat-feeding government ac- tivity. In total, there were 30 pE'Ople on the commission itself. There were only four committees, and San Diegans headed two of them. Siegan headed the committee on govern-
Bernard H. Siegan
Choral Vespers Offered Sunday SAN DIEGO - A service of choral vespers will be offered by the University of San Diego Choir and Vocal • Ensemble on Sunday, May 2 at 4 p.m. in the Immaculata. There is no admission and the public is invited. The service, under the musical direction of the Rev. Nicholas Reveles, will feature music by Ralph Vaughn-Williams, J. S. Bach, Viadana, and a new mass setting by Father Reveles. The senior handbell choir of St. Brigid's Parrish, un- der the direction of Jerry Witt, will assist in the service.
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Wednesday, April 28, 1982 Sc"nt111el Weekend spotlight (:-:==-M_u_s_:_ic~- A SERVICE of Choral Ves . . .,, the University of San 0- pers be offered by Ensemble Sunday at 4 Pm i~g~h Chorr and Vocal service, under the musi~al et:rmmaculata. The Reveles will f tu ec ion of Fr. Nicolas . . ' ea re music b Ra! h Williams, J.S. Bach and v· d Y P Vaughn- setting by Fr. Reveles. Ia ana, and a new mass The senior handbell choir of st B . . ' Wld~r the direction of Jerry w·tt 1:gid s_ P~ish, service. Fr. Reveles is a m i_ '_will assist m the Fine Arts Department at USD~1c Instructor in the
Choral Vespers will be highlighted ma concert by the USO Choir and Vocal Ensemble, Sunday, May 2, 4 p.m., the immaculate Church Alcala Park, USO F ' 291-6480. ' ree.
USD CONCERT CHOIR AND VOCAL ENSEMBLE IN CONCERT (lmmaculata, University of San Diego), Service of Choral Vesperull 4 p.m. Sunday, featunng the mll8iC of Vaughn• W1lhams, Bach. V1adana, and a mass by Father Nicolas Reveles.
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MAY 1982 USD Choral Concert- Father Nicolas Reveles directs the Choral Concert in a program May 2 a, 4 in the lmmaculata Chapel, USO. Info: 29 1-6480.
Piano Recital, USO music profes~ sor Nicholas Revdes will perform works hy R.:cthoven, Schum,inn, Chopm, and Brahm,, ThursJ,,,·, May 13, 8 p.m., Mamlevill~ Au, d,rorium, UCSD. 452-4559.
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