We at Livable California expect a roller coaster ride in 2022 as the state attempts to take more zoning and planning powers away from cities and communities in a bid to direct your area’s local growth from the Capitol.

Broad state laws applied to local conditions are backfiring, harming low-income Californians, the environment, and the street on which you live.

Please join our effort right now, by donating to Livable California right here. Your generous donation will be matched up to $2,000.

If you missed our March 5 meeting, “A Peek at What’s Coming,” in which we discussed 28 proposed laws on housing, the environment, wildfire, transit, zoning, parking and related issues, read summaries of these 2022 bills at Livable California’s website here.

We’re in touch with thousands of city officials, neighborhood leaders, voters and community advocates. Their widely shared issues are:

State lawmakers wrongly claim that market-rate housing trickles down to the poor. It clearly does not.
Affordable housing has been neglected by the State, which must dedicate far more new funding to catch up. We don’t see nearly enough commitment from the Capitol.
Paving over the urban tree canopy in California does not, in fact, fight climate change. It fuels higher temperatures and deadly heat islands in California cities.
State lawmakers should not dictate what can be built, or paved over, on your block.
Letting developers slash parking doesn’t get multi-tasking Californians out of cars. Instead, developers profit more, and family life gets much tougher

We at Livable California are small fry fighting deep pockets in Sacramento. So again, please join us at Livable California, and please give here today to help our $2,000 matching donation drive succeed!