L.A. must add more than 250,000 homes to zoning plan by October, state rules

Los Angeles must rezone to accommodate an additional quarter-million new homes by mid-October after state housing regulators rejected the city’s long-term plan for growth.

The likelihood that L.A. will be able to accomplish in months a task that would normally take several years is very low, but the cost of failure could be high, experts say.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.