Really. The state is nothing more than a laboratory for loony lefty ideas. The people there are nothing more than Guinea pigs who have to run a maze of rules and regulations and if they make a mistake they get zapped with fines.
Like North Korea with better weather.
Some of that idea was kind of funny. The truth is that most of the area of Kalifornia is red but the majority of the voting population is condensed in the cities. San Francisco is liberal hell while I have a CCW issued in one or the northern inland counties. Here they are not hard to get. There is a huge agriculture business in cali, a lot of logging, and many large ranches.
Kalifronia is in the grip of liberal city socialist voters but they usually leave the rural areas alone. It is not hard to figure out that they really are not wanted or welcome out in the vast areas of the red counties. These rules for housing may work near the cities but the rest of us will just tell them where to put it.
Its not just California.
The national population shift from rural to urban has been underway for decades. Some would say that it is wise for CA to plan for this, that is the Public Purpose.
Also the population shift from the northeast, Ohio valley, and Great Lake states to the south, southwest, and west.
Also, the western plains and intermountain deserts are de-populating.
The author of this article, Wendell Cox, has two websites, Demographia and The Public Purpose, that deal with this.
Look at a state like Texas and the politics of rural vs urban is simmering just beneath the surface plus the needs in the state for water, power, roads, and pollution control, etc to accomodate the population growth as yankees and Californians move in.