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Gov. Newsom abolishes most single-family zoning in California
East Bay Times ^ | Sept. 16, 2021 | Marisa Kendall

Posted on 09/17/2021 12:15:45 PM PDT by truthkeeper

In one of his first actions after surviving an election seeking to oust him from office, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday essentially abolished single-family zoning in California — and green-lighted a series of bills intended to bolster the state’s housing production.

By signing Senate Bill 9 into law, Newsom opened the door for the development of up to four residential units on single-family lots across California. The move follows a growing push by local governments to allow multi-family dwellings in more residential neighborhoods. Berkeley voted to eliminate single-family zoning by Dec. 2022, and San Jose is set to consider the issue next month.

While opponents fear such a sweeping change will destroy the character of residential neighborhoods, supporters hail it as a necessary way to combat the state’s persistent housing crisis and correct city zoning laws that have contributed to racial segregation...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: blight; ghetto; slum
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To: Ken H

Dr. Zhivago


21 posted on 09/17/2021 12:23:46 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: MercyFlush

Exactly..That’s why they never care about how it all turns out..No matter what it’s never in their neighborhoods or schools


22 posted on 09/17/2021 12:24:12 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: WMarshal

I would be more “free” in Costa Rica.


23 posted on 09/17/2021 12:27:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: truthkeeper

Who will benefit?

Developers who can now take a nice single family home lot and build a duplex, triplex or quadplex residential building on it.

Who will lose?

Neighborhoods whose single family home lots will begin to be populated with multi-family home lots.

Who will benefit from that?

Developers who will buy the single family lots in neighborhoods their mutli-family new build are wrecking.

Who else will benefit?

The Dims with the campaign donations from the developers.


24 posted on 09/17/2021 12:28:15 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: truthkeeper

He needs to put his illegals who voted for him someplace; get them off the streets.


25 posted on 09/17/2021 12:28:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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To: House Atreides
Kind of SAD if you REALLY trust the results of the recent recall election. TOTAL BULLSH!T and everybody KNOWS IT. Same election THEFT production as 2020.

SAME CORRUPT ELECTORAL SYSTEM, SAME CORRUPT RESULTS. Almost everybody HATES Newsom in CA, EVEN ILLEGALS WHO WORK FOR A LIVING AND HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS BECAUSE OF HIS TYRANNICAL LOCK-DOWNS.

26 posted on 09/17/2021 12:28:53 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: truthkeeper

Never saw this coming.


27 posted on 09/17/2021 12:29:16 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: truthkeeper

Luckily where I live in LA they dont allow for this crap here..so basically how does this work..the state pays for these structures to be built? Can the owner refuse? Id like to see Newsom build some on HIS property, let some hobos move in rent free


28 posted on 09/17/2021 12:30:00 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: House Atreides

They voted for it? Seriously? That election was stolen just like every other in Dem controlled counties all over the country.

You think the average blue collar Joe wanted that tyrant to stay on? It was stolen, again.


29 posted on 09/17/2021 12:30:34 PM PDT by boxlunch (Texas: full blast10th amendment push- extreme nullification methods, or Texit as a last resort….????)
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To: truthkeeper

I don’t care anymore. F**k California.


30 posted on 09/17/2021 12:30:49 PM PDT by POWG
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To: truthkeeper

One of those cornerstones of California living, the rising equity of single family homes, is about to flatten severely.

That’s why millions of us are moving out.


31 posted on 09/17/2021 12:35:25 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: truthkeeper
“The housing affordability crisis is undermining the California Dream for families across the state, and threatens our long-term growth and prosperity,” -- Newsom.

This law sure destroys the California Dream of owning your own detached home in a nice R1 residential area with good zoning protection of your dream. You can now expect to have rapacious developers building FOUR housing units built on those tiny lots all around you where you once had one house with nice neighbors. How nice of the communists.

Why stop at four units? Why not just demolish entire blocks and borrow some old Soviet housing designs?


32 posted on 09/17/2021 12:38:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("If I’m going to get my political views from those who chase balls, I’ll ask my dog.")
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To: House Atreides

The people who voted for this either already lived in slums
or knew their Leftist neighborhood would never be affected.

This is squarely aimed at killing off Conservative areas
of California.

Move ‘em in, change that voting demographic.

Watch your city councils, school boards, and every other
government type entity swapped out for Leftist only control.


33 posted on 09/17/2021 12:38:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Biden = Green Light to > China, N. K., Russia, M/E Terrorists, FBI, CDC, MSM, & the Left...)
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To: POWG

No F*CK the USA - it’s headed everywhere because we are letting it by DOING NOTHING to stop the loss of our rights!


34 posted on 09/17/2021 12:42:02 PM PDT by ldish (Isn't it time for the TRUTH on the COVID Virus/Vaccine Massacures?)
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To: truthkeeper

All part of the UN Agenda 21/Agenda 30 plan.....


35 posted on 09/17/2021 12:42:51 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: truthkeeper

Increase sales price per sq ft for the property, decrease construction costs, increase number of people you can squeeze into a jurisdiction, increase tax base, increase number of mortgages, increase number of transactions, and you get the media to sell it for you like it’s a hip, green, cool thing to do to live in a four plex.


36 posted on 09/17/2021 12:50:29 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Hopefully a wealthy, philanthropic conservative will buy the house next to Newsoms, tear it down and build a section 8 four-plex on it.


37 posted on 09/17/2021 12:52:19 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The difference between animals and humans: animals would never let the dumbest of the herd lead them)
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To: TLI

Personally, I prefer Khrushchyovkas to Brezhnevkas.


38 posted on 09/17/2021 12:53:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kevmo
That’s why millions of us are moving out.

I'm one of them. Shopping for a new state now.

39 posted on 09/17/2021 12:54:03 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: TLI

I recognize that, it’s actually in Gdansk, Poland.


40 posted on 09/17/2021 12:56:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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