Livable California Teleconference Sat. April 29 at 10 AM.
State Sen. Scott Wiener’s hated and defeated SB 50, which we all fought in 2019 and 2020, has been reincarnated in the 7 Bad Bills in Sacramento. On Saturday, we’ll share how to bruise the bad bills in their “house of origin.”
The goal is to hobble and hamper — “bruise” — the bad bills in early June. Read on!
- SB 6: (“Kill the Mom & Pops,” by Caballero) Jettisons planning to let developers wipe out business & shopping areas to wedge in EVEN MORE luxury apartment blocks.
- SB 8: (“ATM for Developers,” by Skinner) 5-year extension of a bad bill that empowers well-off density fanatics to sue for $10K-$50K for each luxury unit a city won’t approve.
- SB 9 (“Let’s End Homeownership,” by Atkins & Wiener) Crushes single-family zoning, a threat to 7M households at all income levels. Wiener has called yards “immoral.”
- SB 10: (10-Unit Buildings Everywhere, by Wiener) Lets cities create sweeping ordinances for 10-unit luxury projects in single-family and commercial zones. And lets cities override voter-approved measures protecting land, fueling a war over voter rights.
- SB 478: (Baltimore’s Not That Bad, by Wiener) Lets luxury developers decide how tiny a lot can be, to erect 3- to 10-unit buildings jammed onto multi-family streets.
- AB 1322: (Voters are Fools, by Rivas and Ting) An unprecedented path for city councils to override housing laws approved by voter initiative, fueling a war over voter rights.
- AB 1401: (Just Take the Bus! by Friedman) Slashes required parking for housing projects, AB 1401 theoretically forces us onto transit, a super-spreader of COVID.
We enjoyed state Sen. Bob Hertzberg’s dismantling of Wiener’s SB 10 during an April hearing:
Hertzberg: "I didn't support SB 50 because it would destroy single-family neighborhoods. Do we need to destroy single-family neighborhoods? I could put 10 units on my lot (under SB 10). I can't vote for this because I am telling the state, ‘You can destroy single-family neighborhoods.’”
Wiener: "When we did SB 50 we were told we were forcing cities. Don't use the stick, use the carrot. I listened. SB 10 is a carrot. It's a tool.”
Hertzberg: “It's a tool I wouldn't want to use … When we deal with policing, a gun is a tool.”
Join us Sat. May 29 at 10 am for “Bruising the Bills.” We welcome environmental, homeowner, anti-gentrification and community groups. And please share this 2-min. video about SB 9 and SB 10 from our friends at United Neighbors.
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