This is forced density without local input and control
California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed Senate Bill 79 by Democrat State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, to force single-family neighborhoods to accept high-rise apartment buildings, overriding local zoning restrictions which ban dense development to favor “transit-oriented housing development.”
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Here is Governor Newsom’s juvenile response:
HUGE NEWS!! YIMBY’S REJOICE !! California is making historic strides today as @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom signs #SB79 — streamlining the building of more housing all across the Golden State. No, it does not supersede local control as some have falsely claimed. No, it is not one-size fits all. And no, this is not some “land-grab” by the state. This action sets the state up for success in addressing the affordability and building crisis happening right now!
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It’s all about the YIMBY’s – the “Yes in my backyard” outfit operating in nearly every California city as a non-profit.
Here is what YIMBY says it stand for:
- addressing and correcting systemic inequities in California housing laws, and in related laws and regulations;
- empowering Californians across the state to engage their elected representatives at the state and local levels on housing and related policies;
- ensuring that California housing laws and local regulations are evidence-based, equitable and inclusive; and
- drafting and advocating for proven legislative solutions that accelerate the pace of home building.
Building back better, faster, and more sustainably
More homes near transit
Renewing the dream of homeownership
But YIMBY and Sen. Wiener actually dream of destroying California suburbs, because suburbs are where people flee from the cities, from apartment living, from crappy schools, from living on top of each other in dense housing.
Take note that in August, the Los Angeles City Council voted 8-5 to oppose SB 79, calling it a “Sacramento attempt to hijack local planning,” silencing residents, Palisades News reported. Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades are right.
As many who have followed the long path of SB 70 have concluded, all of the six-story apartment buildings built next to a single family home will probably be luxury housing, no matter what is said by Sen. Wiener and Gov. Newsom. Developers can’t afford to build subsidized “affordable housing” in established residential neighborhoods.
Wiener’s latest housing bill “requires a housing development project within a specified radius of existing or currently proposed major transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, be an allowable use on a site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the housing development meets certain requirements. This bill also allows a transit agency to adopt TOD zoning standards for district-owned land located in a TOD zone.”
