No. It is not good.
It is very, very bad.
The wealthy ‘Rats will never feel the adverse effects of this disastrous legislation. Their neighborhoods in BelAir, Baldwin Park, Beverly Hills, Napa, Marin will be forever single family dwellings.
Ordinary people who work hard, save and get mortgages in order to live in decent neighborhoods are going to be damaged by this legislation.
“Their neighborhoods in BelAir, Baldwin Park, Beverly Hills, Napa, Marin will be forever single family”
It sounds to me like someone with money to burn could buy a Beverly Hills estate and build low income housing. Lots of it on one of those big parcels. I would go for mid century Soviet inspired architecture.
And as we all know, the new quadplexes will be limited to “low income” applicants, IOW illegals.
It has been a Republican idea for a long time to get rid of zoning laws since the Left used them to prevent development all through the ‘70s and the ‘80s. But once the massive numbers of non-white “immigrants” began flooding California in the mid-80’s, the Left realized that they had to accommodate them somehow. But they can’t have both environmental purity - no more development - and mass immigration. What to do?! That’s right - put everyone in high density anthills!
So that’s what this is all about: their model for the future is Manhattan: lotsa people packed into high density urban areas but with stringent controls on development outside “urban service” lines.
A way to have their cake and eat it too.
And since they all aspire to be urbanites, they see nothing wrong with this and plan to smash the suburbanites into living on top of each other the way they do. Welcome to the Soviet Union, Comrade! Where only party members get to live in Dachas outside of the Imperial City.
But of course, Newsom’s buddies are going to run into the real problem in California...where ya gonna get the water for all these new plexes? Can’t get those hookups now. They will likely have to designate existing SFD lines to be OK for multi-family dwellings on the same lot. Won’t matter; the water to increase the flow doesn’t exist.