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When a severe water shortage started in Marin County outside San Francisco four years ago, more and more families began to consider moving deeper into the exurbs. Many of them chose Petaluma, a pleasant town of 30,000 just up High...
People already living in Petaluma were frightened rather than flattered. Applications for housing-construction permits doubled, then doubled again until they reached 2,000 a year. The smalltown character of the onetime egg capital of California was clearly in jeopardy, as were the low local property taxes. Rapid population growth would require a sharp increase in public services. Petaluma decided to fight back. It passed a new ordinance 18 months ago limiting new building permits to 500 a year. Other communities, eager to check growth, soon began adopting the Petaluma plan. But a group of California land developers had already...
...Petaluma ordinance, they argued, limited the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to travel. They also contended that a fence-them-out approach would put an "undue burden" on interstate commerce, specifically the commerce of producing housing. Moreover, the rule would force housing prices up, imposing a harsh penalty on families of modest means and violating their right to equal protection under...
...Petaluma, Calif...
Last month, Ammann tried the operation again on Matthew Octavio of Petaluma, four weeks old, who suffered from an immune defect that had killed six of his cousins. He was sent home, then returned to hospital with a possible respiratory infection, which the transplant might help him to overcome...