Overview

• Homeowner Wesley Yu filed the federal complaint in San Francisco with backing from the Pacific Legal Foundation.
• East Palo Alto’s ordinance forces new developments to include affordable units or remit a $54,891 impact fee to the city’s housing fund.
• The case invokes last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Sheetz v. El Dorado County, which held that permit conditions must be proportional to project impacts.
• A favorable ruling could unravel similar inclusionary zoning mandates in more than 140 California jurisdictions.
• Related constitutional challenges citing the Sheetz precedent have since been lodged in Denver, Colorado, and Teton County, Wyoming.