By Arthur Coon and Bryan Wenter (September 28, 2017, 11:17 AM EDT) -- AB 890 (Medina – D) was recently sent to California Gov. Jerry Brown for action by Oct. 15 to prevent development agreements and certain types of land use planning and zoning legislation from being enacted by local voter-sponsored land use initiatives. The bill would substantially abridge the local electorate's constitutionally guaranteed and reserved initiative power by purporting to exclusively "delegate" specified exercises of legislative authority to local governing bodies — city councils and county boards of supervisors — and thus concomitantly eliminating local voters' long-held and until now unassailable rights to directly legislate in such areas pursuant to the California Constitution and the state's elections code....