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Beverly Hills home renovations blocked over lack of affordable housing
NY Post ^ | 01/29/2024 | Jim DeRosa

Posted on 01/29/2024 6:52:21 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is no vacant land in the city limits, they should go through the property records within the city limits to identify any and all property owned by the State or the COunty and if there are any, Begin Eminent Domain Seizures.


21 posted on 01/29/2024 7:16:37 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: AppyPappy

Or simply proceed without one. Surely it annoys them that we even expect them to play by the rules we lessers must.


22 posted on 01/29/2024 7:21:20 AM PST by drwoof
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To: dfwgator

“You can find me working on my tan, down at the cee-mint pond!”


23 posted on 01/29/2024 7:27:54 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Skwor

Especially when the chickens coming home to roost QWAP on the elitist DumbClucks.


24 posted on 01/29/2024 7:37:23 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the Fes second" L.Star )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A bit of schadenfreude to start the morning is always uplifting.


25 posted on 01/29/2024 7:37:58 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: eyeamok

Eminent domain is where the government seizes private property for public use. I have no clue what you are trying to say because the government cannot seize property from itself.


26 posted on 01/29/2024 7:41:34 AM PST by RainMan (Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861)
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To: AppyPappy

So what. This is happening to virtually every city dwelling homeowner in the US, in one form or another.


27 posted on 01/29/2024 7:42:41 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: RainMan

Maybe it’s time for Cities to Seize Property through Eminent Domain any Property owned by the State or the County to satisfy their demands for Low Income Housing.


28 posted on 01/29/2024 7:47:56 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Reno89519

keep in mind that those “wrong people with wrong agendas making the decisions that are destroying communities” were voted into office by the same people who are being affected by the destruction of their communities. “elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences” applies. liberals never expect to suffer the consequences of their voting strictly for liberals...until they do. our experience with chickens coming home to roost is that as soon as they roost...they crap non-stop. ON the roost. here’s hoping these folks will appreciate that the manure is great for virtue signalling friends that you’ve gone green!


29 posted on 01/29/2024 7:48:50 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the Fes second" L.Star )
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To: cgbg

If Beverly Hills took federal funding for sidewalks, roads or infrastructure then the government mandates that they build housing approved by HUD or the FHA. This includes section 8 and housing that is supported by government assistance. Quit accepting federal funding. There’s always a catch.


30 posted on 01/29/2024 7:59:27 AM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: AppyPappy

judge may have halted the issuance of building permits, but the city could quietly simply quit enforcement, perhaps even disband the enforcement unit ... another tactic the city could employ is to change the requirements for building permits, e.g., permits required only if the remodel/upgrade costs over 5 million dollars ...

still, given that the whole shebang there is probably nearly 100% Democrat, they probably don’t have the will/desire to lift their bureaucratic middle finger to said judge ...


31 posted on 01/29/2024 8:00:53 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rich denizens of Beverly Hills are the very ones who host $1,000+ a plate fund raisers for the likes of Obama, Biden and Gavin Newson - why they’re always flying in, closing freeways, causing inconvenience.

No community in California deserves to have affordable housing more than 90201. Hope the courts stick it to them and mandate even more “affordable” housing.

They whole-heartedly deserve what they support - they were sure that “affordable” housing was going to be built in YOUR neighborhood, not yours.


32 posted on 01/29/2024 8:14:18 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The idea is to export crime to every neighborhood. Then pass laws increasing government power and limiting freedom to solve the crime problem.


33 posted on 01/29/2024 8:16:23 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: Reno89519

Amen to that.

In California it is state senator Scott Wiener from San Francisco who is behind this destructive legislation - he got a bill passed, Newsom signed, that null and voided all local zoning - meaning the state now mandates all zoning laws.

It is now legal to build up to four units on any property once designated as single-family home - State Sen. Wiener has declared single-family homes “immoral.” Cities are also being mandated to build tens of thousands of “affordable” units - there are massive projects going up on the outskirt of my own town - never mind we are under water mandates and our electrical grid is overloaded (I get alerts during heat waves to not plug in EVs and to turn off all large appliances).

You can now divide your property in two, build an ADU and sell that separately.

This is to utterly destroy single-family neighborhoods and push us all into Soviet-style block apartments.


34 posted on 01/29/2024 8:20:52 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yukyuk


35 posted on 01/29/2024 8:39:37 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Beverly hills is already full of Muslims and assorted foreign Nationals with money.

What up burn!

Chop you low California


36 posted on 01/29/2024 8:41:40 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rich people have ways of getting around the “rules.”

They have nothing to worry about.


37 posted on 01/29/2024 8:44:01 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox

Rules are for the little people.


38 posted on 01/29/2024 8:45:25 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bon of Babble

I spent some time in Redondo Beach/Torrance with a coastal view. Owners of any property with a view had to put up flags for approval of building additions or complete rebuilds. The cheapest crap shack with a view was well over a million dollars 6 years ago. Being on a hillside, that part of Redondo beach isn’t conducive for multifamily housing. I wonder if the CA bill trumps the local zoning in this regard?


39 posted on 01/29/2024 8:48:00 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is healthy housing markets that produce “affordable housing”. They - healthy housing markets - create enough new houses, which helps keep new house prices from increasing excessively, which also generates “buying up” buyers who put their “more afforable” homes on the market.

The probelm with the “affordable housing” political agenda is that they also want “affordable housing” to be as good as the best housing.

I grew up in “affordable” housing all my youth.

Sometimes it was in a tiny town (6,000 people) 50 miles from the nearest Air Force base, which we had to move off of when my dad was sent to Japan during the Korean war. The former residence on that base was adequate but spartan. That tiny town and the house we moved into there because demand and prices in that little town were not high, particularly like the older home we moved to.

Next we again had “affordable” military housing in another state; again adequate but spartan.

Then we moved to another state (another military reassignment) where we rented one half of a duplex residence. Three bedrooms was small for a family of nine - four buys, three girls and mom and dad, but we never noticed it to be “inadequate”.

On the next assignment to another state we moved into housing that had been WWII military barracks that had been converted into apartments. They took two units in one building, made a cased opening between them, giving our large family two kithens, two living rooms, two bathrooms and four bedrooms. Yes, more space, with a central kerosene fueled - sitting in the open - heater in each unit and a rook that leaked like a sive in the rain. But it was affordable on dad’s military pay. After one winter we moved to a large spacious old house on the edge of town. Large and spacious were about its only redeaming qualities. In the basement was the central heating unit for the house - a giant coal fired heating system, which in the winter was not great competition for the windows that leaked like sive. But we managed, loved the creaky old house, and it was affordable for mom and dad.

Only when we moved to Californa during a big housing boom there did mom and dad manage to find an affordable newly built home. In terms of housing markets they could not have found a better time.

“Affordable” is what you can afford, period, and the rest is what you make do with; and you survive. Our family of ten did and any family can today.


40 posted on 01/29/2024 8:59:22 AM PST by Wuli
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