Posted on 07/24/2019 6:34:11 PM PDT by george76
California may be on the verge of eliminating single-family zoning statewide. This is huge. And its a sign of how quickly the politics around housing and land use have shifted in just the last year.
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Senate Bill 50 San Francisco Sen. Scott Wieners bill to allow denser, taller housing ... Single-family houses could be converted to four-unit buildings, by right, anywhere in the state.
That is, a property owner could subdivide or remodel a house to turn it into four apartments. Or a developer could build a fourplex on a vacant single-family lot.
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Lets just pause on the fact that a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted in favor of a bill that would allow apartments pretty much anywhere in California.
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Last year, the Minneapolis City Council voted to eliminate single-family zoning and instead allow duplexes and triplexes to be built on lots reserved for one house. The city enacted the policy so it would be easier to build affordable, denser communities, but also to help integrate neighborhoods that are still segregated as a result of discriminatory housing practices dating back decades. Strict single-family zoning was often adopted as a way to segregate neighborhoods ..
Planners in Charlotte, N.C., are looking to eliminate single-family zoning
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Seattle and Portland have considered rezoning single-family lots or allowing up to four-unit buildings in single-family neighborhoods. One Oregon lawmaker proposed allowing fourplexes on single-family lots in any city in the state with more than 10,000 residents.
Even Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is warming to the idea. He told Times reporter Liam Dillon earlier this month that the city was looking at the Minneapolis model of allowing triplexes on single-family lots as a way to build more housing
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
That's what most of the folks in Boston thought; too; before December 16, 1773.
Then a few of them had just had enough and were NOT gonna take it any more!
Bingo
As a 19y/o kid from Ohio, I moved to Hollywood in '68...and returned home 5 years later before the shithole appeared. Thank God!
I have 5.58 acres for sale in N Nevada High Desert.
New property tax bill for whole year is $735.83....That is NOT A TYPO.
House, garage with 220, and fencing set up with 12 separate horse enclosures.
Asking less than replacement costs.
PM me if you are seriously interested. I will share other info like utilities, etc.
Facepalm.
I just cant.
California, and Los Angeles, provide the perfect manifestations to How can we f this place up any further? Because its getting more difficult to do so, and they keep overachieving.
“Even Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is warming to the idea.”
Is this surprising? Garcetti is easily the stupidest big city mayor in the US. And we have clones of him in Orange County.
But hey, it’s our duty to provide housing for millions of illegal aliens, and for that matter the millions of legal immigrants who are crowding into SoCal. At least that’s what the hacks from both parties are saying.
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Born there in 1953 and grew up in Southern Ca till about 1964 when we moved to Seattle. Learned to swim in the ocean, played all day at the beach with friends, barefoot and without parents for most summer days, beautiful place to grow up.
The sandbag in front of the step is a nice touch.
Shut up
“The sandbag in front of the step is a nice touch.”
I know, right? Classy!
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Garcetti is remarkably stupid!
UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
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Yes, add me to the list.
A young homosexual, climate change believer Democrat told me “People should not be allowed by the government to have individual houses. All should live in heavy density urban housing. That will be more efficient and cut down on commuting,delivery distances and use of energy and resources.”
No.
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