Author: Byron de Arakal

Byron de Arakal is Vice Chairman of the Costa Mesa Planning Commission

Time for Orange County Cities To Act On Housing Crisis or Newsom Will Do It For Them

Any doubt newly minted Gov. Gavin Newsom is serious about ending the housing affordability crisis that has put the California dream “in peril” vanished Jan.25

Byron de Arakal February 14, 2019

Five ways to reform CEQA without ruining the Earth or the middle class

When then-Gov. Ronald Reagan signed into law the California Environmental Quality Act in 1970, he and its authors could not have foreseen what the landmark

Byron de Arakal September 18, 2017