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- As in Oregon, a bipartisan urban-rural alliance outvoted bipartisan opposition. After three years of trying, with editorial endorsements from the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle, a bill sponsored by maybe the state’s most powerful legislator passed the state Assembly with 45 “yes” votes—in other words, with four votes to spare.
- The lot splitting part might be a bigger deal than the duplex part. There are two main parts of California’s Senate Bill 9. One is legalizing duplexes on almost all lots.
- This is good news for Cascadia, too. Year after year, as Sightline wrote last year, California sends a one-way jet stream of people moving north to Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
- a wave of even better local zoning reforms may follow. The other big California housing bill that passed the Assembly this week was Senate Bill 10. That law streamlines the environmental review process when cities do something that’s generally great for the environment: allowing small attached homes to exist.
Aug 19, 2021 · On Sept. 16, two days after winning the recall election, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law, despite pleas from cities to veto it. “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.
Sep 17, 2021 · California is ending a rule that helped cause its housing crisis Gov. Newsom signed bills ending single-family-only zoning, a step toward addressing the housing crisis. by Jerusalem Demsas
Sep 17, 2021 · On Thursday, with the stress of the recall election firmly behind him, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that effectively abolishes single-family home zoning in the country’s largest ...
Sep 17, 2021 · Single-family zoning refers to a residential area where only one housing unit can be built on a given parcel of land. Think of the Southern California suburban staple of a home with no shared ...
Sep 16, 2021 · Sacramento officials aim to make California’s capital one of the nation’s first to eliminate traditional single-family zoning. Portland, Ore., and Minneapolis have passed similar ordinances in ...
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Sep 17, 2021 · California Enacts Two Important New Zoning Reform Laws. Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10 would make it easier to build new housing in much of the state. Ilya Somin | 9.17.2021 3:23 PM. Yesterday ...
