Developer to build 36 homes on Oceanside lot at I-5 and Route 78

A developer is proposing to build 36 single-family homes on a vacant 4-acre parcel at the northeast corner of Interstate 5 and State Route 78, just west of a shopping center with a Walmart. Six of the homes would be designated as affordable housing, which, under state law, allows for more housing on the land than local zoning allows. The state's density bonus law also allows homes to be built closer to the street and occupy a larger percentage o…