Despite objections from Los Angeles city leaders who deemed it an infringement on local development control, Gov. Gavin Newsom Friday signed state legislation allowing more rapid — and more dense — housing projects near major public transit stops.

Senate Bill 79, introduced earlier this year by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, overrides local zoning standards, allowing taller and more dense housing near specific transit stops in eight counties across the state — Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Santa Clara, Alameda, Sacramento, San Francisco and San Mateo.

The bill was originally intended to be enacted statewide, but it was narrowed through a series of amendments as it wound through the Legislature, limiting it to the eight counties and applying only to major transit stops — such as su

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