Santa Monica is planning for more housing, and that means planning for more people. But City Hall still has not answered a basic question that should support all of this: how many people is the water system actually being built to serve? The City’s working assumption is roughly two people per new housing unit. Multiply the number of units by that figure, and you should get a population estimate. But Santa Monica does not have one agreed-upon number. It has several, and they do not match.

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