Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed state legislation allowing more rapid and more dense housing development near major public transit in San Diego County.

Senate Bill 79, introduced earlier this year by Sen. Scott Wiener, D- San Francisco, overrides local zoning standards, allowing taller housing near specific transit stops in eight counties across the state.

Aside from San Diego County, they include other highly populated regions – Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara, Alameda, Sacramento, San Francisco and San Mateo counties.

The bill was originally intended to be enacted statewide, but its footprint was narrowed through a series of amendments as it wound its way through the Legislature, including the limit to areas linked to major transit stops. That includes heavily used stops on major

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