Political pressure mounting for Half Moon Bay to build housing for retired farmworkers

(CBS News Bay Area) - The project to build a 40-unit housing complex for retired farm workers in Half Moon Bay has become a source of frustration for neighbors like Jeanette Chang.

"I feel like we don't have a voice. We go to these meetings, and it's just a rubber stamp.  The urgency and the need for it, I agree.  But how they're going about it is not right," Chang said. 

Disagreements over the size of the project and parking have caused delays and a postponement of a vote to approve the project by the city's planning commission.

"I need to spend a little more time, thinking through this," said Commissioner Rick Hernandez at a recent public hearing. 

But now, the political pressure on Half Moon Bay to act just got worse.

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