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Neptune Apartments in Santa Cruz slated for redevelopment into 102 apartments

By Nik Altenberg|2025-10-31T17:40:42-07:00October 31, 2025|Tags: affordable housing, Downtown Plan Expansion, Featured, housing, Lee Butler, Nik Altenberg, South of Laurel|

Project linked with 201 Front St. ‘SoLa’ proposal

Downtown Santa Cruz expansion plan advances

By Jesse Greenspan|2025-04-18T14:58:06-07:00April 18, 2025|Tags: below market rate housing, downtown expansion plan, Featured, Fred Keeley, housing, Jesse Greenspan, Lee Butler, Pete Kennedy, Rachel Dann, RHNA, Santa Cruz Planning Commission|

Proposal allows taller buildings, new Warriors arena

The future of downtown Santa Cruz

By Kara Meyberg Guzman|2022-05-03T09:51:28-07:00August 31, 2019|Tags: Casey Coonerty-Protti, Chris Krohn, development, housing, Jessie Bristow, Jon Lee, Lee Butler, Michael Mekis, Santa Cruz City Council, Santa Cruz Planning Commission|

Developers, city leaders, shop owners discuss possible building boom

What Santa Cruz County should know about SB 50, Part 2

By Kara Meyberg Guzman|2022-05-03T09:52:43-07:00April 25, 2019|Tags: development, housing, Lee Butler, planning, Ron Goodman, Santa Cruz County, SB50, Scott Wiener|

SB 50, a controversial housing bill working its way through the Legislature, got some major revisions Wednesday.