The remote work trend should help open up vacant office space for housing, but water is in the way
[I]n June 2019, Monterey City Council voted 4-1 to rezone commercial properties along the south side of Garden Road so that they can be converted into multifamily residential units. In so doing, the city would have a better chance of meeting the state-mandated goal of adding 650 housing units by 2023. But given the chronic water shortage on the Monterey Peninsula, that plan has faced a challenge from the start.