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By Tim Redmond, June 29, 2019, 48Hills.Org. Testimony looks at how ‘streamlining’ bill would cut the public out of crucial development discussions. Several members of the Planning Commission expressed concern this week about SB 330, a bill by Sen. Nancy Skinner that is supposed to speed up housing development– and one commissioner said the city
By John Mirisch : calmatters A new Wall Street “product.” Another investment hard-sell for global capital. A timeshare sales strategy. Behind all the talk of solving California’s housing challenges and providing more homes, at the end of the day that’s all Senate Bill 50, the “bold” plan by Sacramento politicians to eliminate single-family zoning, really
By Hydee Feldstein This article focuses on the language of SB 330 itself to show why Dick Platkin’s article on SB 330 as published here in CityWatch was correct, and the response by Senator Skinner’s office as published here in CityWatch is misleading and not an accurate rendition of the text of the bill by the bill’s sponsor and her office. Read the
Opponents of SB 50 warned of the housing bill's impact on diverse, working-class urban neighborhoods like Los Angeles' Jefferson Park, above. (Los Angeles Times) To the editor: While I have great respect for anyone assigned to report on Sacramento, having covered it myself as a columnist in the Arnold Schwarzenegger era, I take issue with
An Open Letter to Scott Wiener: SB 50 Empowers Wall Street to Commoditize Housing By Right! by Hydee Feldstein in The Planning Report Struck by an apparent lack of evidence to support the approach of the upzoning bill and wanting answers to practical policy questions raised by the mandate, Hydee Feldstein, a retired bankruptcy and
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Scott Wiener’s SB 50 Housing Demolition Bill, a Credibility Crisis with Social Justice California By Jill Stewart March 31, 2019 State Sen. Scott Wiener, author of housing bills SB 50 and SB 827, faces a credibility crisis after convincing The New York Times and California media that he “learned his lesson” when his SB 827 went down
7 TALKING POINTS against SB 50 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. Instead, SB 50 lavishly rewards developers who
Scott Wiener’s SB 50 is a WIMBY Bill