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Happy Saturday, Twitter! Last month, CA Governor @GavinNewsom signed several new, transformative housing bills into law to help combat the ever-worsening crisis.
This morning, statewide NIMBY group Livable California gathers to, as the kids say, "cope and seethe."
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This morning, statewide NIMBY group Livable California gathers to, as the kids say, "cope and seethe."
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The bills people are most infuriated by?
#AB2011, which allows new housing to be built in commercial areas *by right*, bypassing local processes, and #AB2097, which eliminates parking requirements for new housing near public transit.
Itās been a helluva year for YIMBYs!
#AB2011, which allows new housing to be built in commercial areas *by right*, bypassing local processes, and #AB2097, which eliminates parking requirements for new housing near public transit.
Itās been a helluva year for YIMBYs!
10 minutes in and the meeting is starting to get underway. There are just 40 people here, including me.
This is an unprecedentedly low participation rate. These meetings used to bring in a 150-200+ people. Repeated YIMBY wins are clearly taking their toll on the membership!
This is an unprecedentedly low participation rate. These meetings used to bring in a 150-200+ people. Repeated YIMBY wins are clearly taking their toll on the membership!
Hard to not see that the Ca statewide ban on parking minimums #AB2097 convo is a reflection of typical shortcomings of white urbanists, and in particular their absence of understanding of equity & race, and refusal to see obvious conflicts with their urbanists dreams. š§µ
While white urbanists & politicians claim the bill advances equity, the actual anti-poverty orgs w/decades standing up for the low-income and people of color are saying different.
Hereās from the Western Center on Law & Poverty, Public Interest Law Project & CRLA Fndn:
Hereās from the Western Center on Law & Poverty, Public Interest Law Project & CRLA Fndn:
āWhen AB 2097 passed the Assembly as well as Senate policy committees, it required that housing development projects of 40 or more units include affordable units in exchange for being relieved of complying with minimum parking standardā¦ā #AB2097
Y does LAT regularly quote at length folks like Manville, but never an urban geographer?
This is a bold-faced lie.
Removing development requirements only ensures greater profits (& often higher land value). It does NOT lower prices!
The way to lower prices is to MANDATE IT.
This is a bold-faced lie.
Removing development requirements only ensures greater profits (& often higher land value). It does NOT lower prices!
The way to lower prices is to MANDATE IT.
And weird (but understandable) to see Garcetti carrying our flag.
#AB2097 eliminates the lone (paltry, flawed but better than nothing) optional inclusionary zoning policy (around transit stops) that exists for the 99% of CA cities.
Calling this a win for equity is insulting.
#AB2097 eliminates the lone (paltry, flawed but better than nothing) optional inclusionary zoning policy (around transit stops) that exists for the 99% of CA cities.
Calling this a win for equity is insulting.
This is the result of a well-funded campaign to deregulate housing development & thereby ANY POSSIBLE LEVERAGE locals have to push speculative/for-profit market-rate developers to be slightly responsive to the current need for affordable & mod-income housing.
Itās insane.
Itās insane.
Parking costs the US about a trillion dollars per year! For every $1 paid by vehicle owners, society pays another $1 for their parking.
vtpi.org/pscp.pdf
vtpi.org/pscp.pdf
But California is leading the way to reform by eliminating parking mandates near transit with the signing of #AB2097.
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articlā¦ via @sfchronicle
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articlā¦ via @sfchronicle
One more reform would similarly, still allow people to build parking, but make sure it is paid for rather than mandated or provided for free.
@alex_lee's #AB2206 would make sure that employees who don't use parking would get an equivalent benefit.
cal.streetsblog.org/2022/09/19/bilā¦
@alex_lee's #AB2206 would make sure that employees who don't use parking would get an equivalent benefit.
cal.streetsblog.org/2022/09/19/bilā¦
2022 California Housing Legislation - over 100 bills this year.
More details: alfredtwu.medium.com/2022-californiā¦
PDF: dropbox.com/s/36zv8r1eacjrā¦
Details in thread! 1/
#CALeg
More details: alfredtwu.medium.com/2022-californiā¦
PDF: dropbox.com/s/36zv8r1eacjrā¦
Details in thread! 1/
#CALeg
More bills this year on limiting wildfire risk:
#SB1292 from @HenrySternCA: Allows cities to limit housing in fire zones & replacing the zoned capacity elsewhere. For every unit of removed from a fire zone, 2 units of capacity must be added elsewhere. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextā¦
#SB1292 from @HenrySternCA: Allows cities to limit housing in fire zones & replacing the zoned capacity elsewhere. For every unit of removed from a fire zone, 2 units of capacity must be added elsewhere. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextā¦
Sharon @quirk_silva has several housing bills this year. a65.asmdc.org/legislative-upā¦ including one that's wildfire related:
#AB2705 Fire hardening & retrofitting standards. Also provides funding for hardening 300,000 homes in very high fire hazard zones. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextā¦
#AB2705 Fire hardening & retrofitting standards. Also provides funding for hardening 300,000 homes in very high fire hazard zones. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextā¦
