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SFGATE: Wealthy Bay Area town makes a charter bid to sidestep mandated housing [link in comments]

- Atherton is looking to gain more control over issues like zoning, revenue options like real-estate transfer taxes and potential cost savings on infrastructure projects

- A charter city gets to create its own laws(called a charter) for municipal affairs — this can include how they manage local elections, set city employee salaries, handle zoning and land use, manage public contracts, or regulate local business licensing

- Other charter cities in the Bay Area include: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Berkeley, Fremont, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale