“Playing the Housing Numbers Game, How California’s sixth-cycle RHNA was rigged” presented by Michael Barnes at a Livable California Teleconference 10/29/22.
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Meet the “Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative” Leaders Jovita Mendoza and John W. Heath
January 4, 2022 Jovita Mendoza is a first-year elected city council member in the Northern California town of Brentwood. She is one of the five formal proponents of the "Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative" who are working hard to find the donor financing needed to meet the huge cost of gathering more than 1 million signatures
Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand Trounces Liam Dillon Over SB 9
Google Image of Redondo Beach, one of the West's most dense cities at 10,623 people per sq mile. December 10, 2021 Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand in a Dec. 9 interview on NPR affiliate KCRW outflanked Los Angeles Times reporter Liam Dillon, who openly defends the hated anti-homeowner law SB 9. In a riveting discussion
How California Cities Can Restrict SB 9 with a Local Ordinance
California cities are rushing to set rational rules for an expected wave of development via SB 9, the outrageous state law that overrides single-family housing on Jan. 1, 2022 to allow multiple-unit market-rate projects on 7 million single-family lots. SB 9 is deaf to the vast environmental and economic damage to come, when California homeownership
Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand Leads Effort to Wrest City Planning Control from the State of California
November 2021 By Ryan McDonald and Mark McDermott/Photography by JP Cordero (This story first appeared on Nov. 12, 2021 in Easy Reader. Republished here with approval of the authors.) Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand visited the State Capitol building in Sacramento in early 2018 to meet with state legislators about the numerous efforts underway to
Maps of California Fire Zones: Is Your Street Affected Under SB 9?
Oct. 20, 2021 (The slideshow above shows the hundreds of California fire severity zones. The slides start with San Diego, head north on the coast to Oregon, then turn inland and head south from Clear Lake Reservoir in NorCal to Indio in SoCal. One in six single-family homes in California is within a red, orange
SB 9 Fact Sheet: The Media Missed SB 9’s Perilous Role in Firestorms. We’re Correcting the Record.
Oct. 12, 2021 Senate Bill 9 ends single-family zoning to allow four homes where one now stands. It was signed by Gov. Newsom, backed by 73 of 120 legislators and praised by many media. Yet a respected pollster found 71% of California voters oppose SB 9. During the 2021 firestorms, SB 9 sailed through
California’s Beloved Urban Forests Are Not on Any Map You’ll Find. Now They’re Targeted by SB 9 and SB 10
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Gov. Newsom Signed SB 9 to End Single-Family Zoning, and the Eight Reasons He Shouldn’t Have
September 16, 2021 Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed SB 9 and its cousin bill, SB 10, two deeply flawed and troubling bills that target single-family areas for density but with different approaches. Neither bill requires any affordable housing to alleviate California's affordability crisis. And SB 9 is the first housing bill signed in California's
SB 9: Watch Assembly Floor Vote Live on Aug. 26 and Aug. 30. Which Legislators Speak Against SB 9?
August 26, 2021 SB 9 is on the agenda above, meaning there is a SMALL CHANCE that SB 9 will be voted on today, Aug. 26, following after the badly flawed SB 8 goes up for a vote. SB 9 is listed as No. 36 on today's Assembly agenda for Thurs. August 26. Our