Was very very glad to see this - but lefties like Newsom and Scott Weiner never give up, they’ll be back to fight this, of that you can be sure. Hated that the state usurped over local zoning laws and imposed destructive housing policies on single-family neighborhoods, in effect destroying them.
Cities are also mandated to create tens of thousands of new apartment buildings, including set-asides for low income housing. These huge monstrosities are going up on the edges of my town. My son looked into one that was recently finished and one-bedroom apartments were going for around $2,000/month and up.
The ADUs that are going up, from talking to my neighbors, seem to be for elderly relatives, not to use as rentals or for AirBNB - people are afraid of squatters or non-paying renters - who have all the laws on their side in this sorry sate.
Love my state. Hate its government.
"A Los Angeles County judge found that charter cities aren’t subject to Senate Bill 9, the 2021 “duplex” law that allows up to four homes to be built on a lot in single-family neighborhoods.
The law fails to accomplish its stated purpose of creating more affordable housing, and therefore, doesn’t meet the high bar of overriding local control over zoning, Superior Court Judge Curtis Kin said in a ruling released Wednesday, April 24.
SB 9 “is neither reasonably related to its stated concern of ensuring access to affordable housing nor narrowly tailored to avoid interference with local government,” Kin wrote.
The ruling applies only to the state’s 121 charter cities, not to more than 400 “general law” cities and counties operating without their own charters.