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 ...
It will kill the middle class and upper middle class. They wont build these four- plexes in the extremely wealthy neighborhoods because the lots will be too much.
Liberals love to harm middle class to bring up worthless sacks of it that do nothing to help themselves.
One more thing I lived in Fremont and one of the houses on our block at afghan refugees living there. I believe there were two families and 27 total people living there. This house was a small three bedroom no more than 1600 ft.². Basically everyone slept on the floor. Some nights People slept outside in the front yard and in the backyard. It was close living it was kind of like living in the desert in a tent except this was California.
My wife's brother lives in SF, what used to be a nice quiet neighborhood 30 years ago. Now homes are jammed with lots of people, with many cars and no where to park. Many of them park on the sidewalks. Fights break out over parking. Lots of congestion. B-i-l only has 1 car, and sometimes has to struggle getting it out of the garage because of cars encroaching on his driveway. Cops don't do any enforcement, and it's a huge problem all over the city. City "leaders" want to pack more people into the city, which is crazy.
It WAS a smashing sucess for a few yrs!!...lol
(to those that got rich on the ground floor...I met a couple of them that retired to Fla...)
I would live in Alabama before I would California.
My daughter just moved to the East Coast form the “Bay area,” Alameda, and we are so happy! California is doomed and showing signs that it won’t be too long before it will be intolerable to live there. Beautiful and perfect weather? Not worth the crap and the costs t live in a, soon to be, shithole.
Just like in Dr Zhivago after the Bolsheviks took over.
I would live in Alabama before I would California.
My daughter just moved to the East Coast form the “Bay area,” Alameda, and we are so happy! California is doomed and showing signs that it won’t be too long before it will be intolerable to live there. Beautiful and perfect weather? Not worth the crap and the costs t live in a, soon to be, shithole.
On top of any neighborhood that doesn't cheerfully agree with the decrees of the politburo.
Nancy’s place will house dozens of families ,LOL
Minneapolis MN has also done this.
Warsaw getto’s
Well, to be fair allowing more housing types in areas is just simply the free market asserting itself. Land costs are so high in markets like Charlotte (and astronomical in markets like SF) that even the multi-family units will go to high income in nice areas of town and likely very upscale.
Seattle tried this a few years ago. Just sad. But expected.
Please keep the liberals out of conservative states. Thank you
I would never move to Alabama, that place has problems. As you said, California has a lot going for it, mainly the great weather. I can afford it, and my neighborhood is a couple miles from the coast, safe and good (not rezoned, yet, is still single-family residential). Wife and I are contemplating living in Iowa part of the year, where one of our daughters lives with her family. Very friendly place, slow-paced and crowd-free, but weather is good only part of the year unlike year-round in California. California is great near the coast and outside of the big cities, whereas there's not much going on in midwest states. But the slower pace in the midwest would preserve one's sanity.
My brother is in the final stages of selling his house and he is antsy that something will happen. He is very anxious to get out of California.
He told me he is tired of their brilliant ideas, and no way to stop them. He said he wished he had all the tax money back he has paid them over the years because they just wasted every cent.
It is also about the tent dwellers living down by LAX. Also huge explosion of homeless in wealthy places like Silicon Vsllay. I like the freedom to subdivide. We inquired a few years ago about scraping a two-on-a-lot and building a fourplex, like other properties on the same block. We were told that this was NEVER approved in our city. We sold and bought a six unit in a different city. That lot had been changed from single family to multi in the 70s. Our property provides a home for several working lower middle class families. Im happy we can do that. More people should have the option.
Where’s that pic of the giant ‘apartment’ buildings in Hong Kong (I think) that were just added on and added on, ... ?
UN Agenda 21 or 2030 or whatever they are up to now.
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