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 it’s 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 Wiener’s 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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Let’s 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 ...
California launches its Bolshevik Rezoning Plan.
With humans, a man is young, then grows, then turns old, then dies.
With places, a place is open and free, then gets crowded, then turns democrat, then dies.
Arguing against that cycle is like arguing against aging, or saying water is wrong to turn to ice when it gets cold enough.
Following the smashing success that was Cabrini Greens.
The likelihood of strong buildings last on the Coast is perhaps time for People to move in?
IOW..Wiener likes the Oscar Meyer,,,,
Actually, it's not. The state is trying to implement some market forces into housing, for once. In cities, yes they should allow hi-rise apartment complexes.
The Housing crisis is completely driven by economics. CA has a lengthy permit process, complicated zoning laws, and strict environmental laws. Want to get rid of homelessness? Free the market!
Hawaii did this incrementally too yrs ago in certain neighborhoods......
Sell now before your neighbor turns his house into a 4 plex rental.
Where will the new reservoirs go?
I left California in 2005 I lived in a condo then and the next-door neighbor was section 8. The place smells so bad similar to a garbage dump. Then there was the noise that went on every night from 11 to 2in the morning.
The police were generally there twice a month for domestic violence and vehicle matters. It seems they didn’t like to keep their licenses up-to-date or pay insurance. There was no way for me to complain. The condo association took no responsibility for none owners (tenets in section 8) and the police refused to enforce noise ordinances. The smells of rotting food and garbage left out meant we could never open the windows. These folks never worked but partied nightly. This will kill California I know I lived it.
Agenda 21 signed by GHWB in action. 1991. United Nations.
This is being done BECAUSE illegals live 12 people to a home AND neighbors are complaining because landlords don’t care as long as the rent is paid!!! There is no parking ANYWHERE on the streets in neighborhoods anymore, rental homes are a mess and home owners are fed up!! SO the way to fix this is just make it legal, with the property taxes and the cost of homes here people will flee as if they are not fleeing fast enough already!!!
No, no, no! Weiner is a dick to attempt passage of this, it's bad!
There is all this complaining about homeless people on the streets everywhere, and high rents. But these so-called "leaders" don't listen to the residents complaints about overcrowding.
There are numerous complaints about pedestrians and bikers getting hit by cars because streets are congested. Parking is rare and hard to find. Traffic jams are everywhere. This was caused by "leaders" allowing every nook and cranny to be built on, without thought about congestion.
Where I live in a suburb of SF, they rezoned a large swath of residential neighborhoods from single-family residences (1 or 2 story) into multi-family multi-story residential; residents are complaining mightily to city hall. They've already begun building 8 to 10 story monstrosities among residences, without earmarking parking to handle the crowds. It's madness.
Friends of ours from California were talking about this several months ago. They said the state government were building large apartment complexes with small apartments (much like one sees in Russia or China). Didn’t believe it at the time.
Maybe California is learning about supply-side economics and the laws of supply and demand. For much of Amerca’s history, there was no zoning at all, and landowners could add housing at will. This allowed the supply of housing to expand with the demand, freeing people from having to pay the contemporary equivalent of New York City or San Francisco prices for housing.
There was an inconvenient Harvard study that showed the more diverse a community was, the lower the community involvement. There were a lot of objections and the study was refined and revised but the results produced were the same.
It’s insane.
They hate independent families.
They want hives.
California is beautiful and the weather is perfect. So you pay the price for living in California. Can’t afford it? Move to Alabama.
This is all about illegals. 4 to 5 families in a single family house. Illegal but not enforced.
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