Newsom signs bill that can significantly reduce single family zoning in California and also two other bills that will help bolster housing supply. What a positive development
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three housing-related bills into law Thursday that are likely to make multi-family housing projects easier to build and open up many single-family zones to development. …
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three housing-related bills into law Thursday that are likely to make multi-family housing projects easier to build and open up many single-family zones to development.
“The housing affordability crisis is undermining the California Dream for families across the state, and threatens our long-term growth and prosperity,” Newsom said in
a statement announcing that he’d signed a series of three bill targeting the housing shortage. “Making a meaningful impact on this crisis will take bold investments, strong collaboration across sectors and political courage from our leaders and communities to do the right thing and build housing for all.”
Newsom’s signatures come two days after he
defeated an effort to recall him from office.
He signed the most prominent legislation despite nearly 250 cities objecting that it will, by design, undermine local planning and control.
One of the bills, SB 9, “facilitates the process for homeowners to build a duplex or split their current residential lot,” the release read.
In practice, the bill require cities to approve up to four housing units on what was a single-family lot. They would also have to approve splitting single-family lots so they could be sold separately....
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Another bill signed by Newsom, SB 10, makes it easier for local governments to rezone areas near transit centers for multifamily housing of up to 10 units per parcel.
On Twitter, state Sen. Scott Wiener, the author of SB 10, called Newsom’s signature a “big step in our fight for housing.”
...The last in the trio of bills, SB 8, extends until 2030 the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, which “accelerates the approval process for housing projects, curtails local governments’ ability to downzone and limits fee increases on housing applications,” the statement read."
...Finally some progress on previously terrible housing policy backed up by NIMBY's that offer zero solutions and just spout alarmist gibberish, to at least start to tackle a massive problem facing many desirable areas to live, lack of housing inventory and affordable housing.