Referring to state housing laws as the “governor’s mandate,” Huntington Beach Mayor Tony Strickland and two other city council members blocked approval of the city’s massive housing plan for the rest of the 2020s. But rather than kill the city’s 1,164-page “housing element” outright, the sharply divided city council united behind a motion to postpone

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