State Housing Regulators Find Oceanside’s SB 79 Carve-Outs Out of Compliance, Order City to Rework Transit Housing Exemptions

California's housing department has told Oceanside that its ordinance exempting and deferring land around seven Sprinter stations from SB 79 misreads the transit housing law, ordering the city to rewrite or re-justify the carve-outs as legal challenges over the law's rollout spread across the San Diego region.