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Posted inBusiness & Technology

This week in Santa Cruz County business: Joby moves closer to launching passenger service, Moss Landing restaurant owners sue over battery plant fire

by Jessica M. Pasko

In her weekly roundup of local business, Jessica M. Pasko reports that Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation is eyeing late this year or early 2026 for carrying the first passengers aboard its electric air taxis. She also has news on the aftermath of the Moss Landing battery plant fire and national honors for Santa Cruz Metro, plus names, numbers and events to know.

Posted inOpinion from Community Voices

Why Santa Cruz realtors are against the Workforce Housing Solutions Act – setting the record straight

by Renee Mello

The Santa Cruz County Association of Realtors opposes Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley’s Workforce Housing Solutions Act, which is gathering signatures for the November ballot. The organization supports affordable housing, writes Renee Mello, the group’s president, but believes the proposed “double tax” – which would put an annual $96 parcel tax on most lots throughout the city of Santa Cruz, and an additional tax on homes sold for more than $1.8 million – would make selling homes too burdensome. “If this measure were only a parcel tax, we may have taken a position of support, but unfortunately this was not the case,” she writes.

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