THE LATEST: A game-changing study from Embarcadero Institute shows our major cities are fast-approving TOO MUCH luxury housing, under rules set by the legislature. Even as we speak, the legislature is producing MORE SB 50 lookalike bills that reward MORE luxury housing! Remember that old definition of insanity? THREE BAD BILLS WE'LL FIGHT IMMEDIATELY A
(Livable California Editor's Note: Livable California applauds the LA County division of the League of Cities for rejecting Scott Wiener's unprecedented law, SB 50, which would remove land-use powers from more than 400 towns and cities and hand that power to PRIVATE DEVELOPERS. In the below White Paper, diverse city officials representing working-class and middle-class
7 TALKING POINTS against SB 50 for California City Officials and Community Leaders SB 50 is an unprecedented taking of local planning powers that hands city and community decision-making directly to luxury housing developers. It provides no help for cities to recover from developers’ disruption of low-income neighborhoods, communities of color and single-family neighborhoods.
FULL LETTER HERE: Livable California Opposition Letter - SB 330 August 6, 2019
BY TIM REDMOND Original story posted on 48Hills.Org on Jan. 2, 2019 A Dec. 29 story by the Chron’s real-estate reporter, J.K. Dineen, who knows the market as well as anyone in town, shows exactly why the Yimby agenda will never work in San Francisco. The story dropped in the middle of the week
On June 1st , Susan Kirsch, the founder of Livable California, announced her resignation from the Board of Directors of our organization to pursue new opportunities and challenges. Our Board wishes Susan all the best in her future endeavors. She was the motive force behind our organization and she will be hard to replace. While
Cupertino Statistics - 2016 Snapshot Similar to some Bay Area cities, Cupertino is actually way above their RHNA goals for apporving market-rate housing units but are way under for their below market rate housing units. Population: 60,297 Households: 20,500 Employed Residents: 29,500 Jobs: 36,253 Housing Units: 21,560 Employed Residents per Household: 1.37 Jobs per Employed
By Dick Platkin in citywatchla.com PLATKIN ON PLANNING-No, your eyes aren’t lying. Los Angeles is experiencing a building boom, mostly high-rise luxury hotels and apartments in a few select neighborhoods. Some are already open, others are under construction, and the rest are either pulling permits or finalizing financing. Those claims that LA’s zoning is so
By Eric Krock The League of Women Voters has a well-deserved reputation for sponsoring non-partisan voter education events. That reputation was jeopardized on Friday evening when the League co-sponsored a shamelessly one-sided, stage-managed event with Scott Wiener in Palo Alto. The event was billed as a forum on housing bill S.B. 50 with Scott Wiener,
By Eric Krock Friday evening’s forum in Palo Alto on S.B. 50 was a sham and a bust as a voter education event, but it was an outstanding opportunity to see Scott Wiener demonstrate his unethical persuasion techniques in person. Here were some of the lowlights of his comments. Mischaracterize the status quo Wiener described