What is a Housing Element?

Last night the Planning Board had a long agenda to get through. Starting with discussion and endorsement of the Housing Element (which, by the way, is basically state law making sure that cities are zoning enough land to meet the needs of its citizens, whether they need SRO's or apartments or houses or whatever). They moved on to signs at Alameda Landing. And then rounded out the night (well, my night, it was getting pretty late so I had to skip the last 2 agenda items) with questions and comment on proposed changes to improve transportation off West End, and that whole freeway-Chinatown-interchange mess.