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Line 211: @YIMBYwiki  [https://twitter.com/YIMBYwiki/status/951015359137570818 12:58 AM - 10 Jan 2018]<br/> Replying to @Maxtropolitan @rihallix<br/> “@PreserveLA (lead backer of @YesOnSla) paid @DamienISgoodmon to help advocate for #MeasureS, according to @LAWeekly here: [http://www.laweekly.com/news/battle-over-development-covets-the-hearts-and-minds-of-las-minorities-7992660 http://www.laweekly.com/news/battle-over-development-covets-the-hearts-and-minds-of-las-minorities-7992660]. === <br/> Upzoning will make land so expensive that only high-end housing will be viable  === [Platkin, 8 Feb 2018]:<br/> "The result will be a massive expansion of each affected parcel’s by-right building envelope, which, in turns makes each parcel far more valuable to real estate investors. The market value of these properties will shoot up, and new buyers and owners must therefore build expensive projects to recoup their higher land acquisition costs and still maximize their profits. Their need to build luxury buildings will increase, and their projects will, therefore, cater to the top end of the real estate market. Since these new owners and tenants own and drive cars, they are the least likely Angelenos to take transit, even when it is close to their house, condo, or apartment. And since they will displace poorer residents who are already transit users, transit ridership will go down further, a trend already underway in Southern California for the past five years."   Line 287 ⟶ 291: Resident (name redacted for privacy on request), Nextdoor.com, San Rafael, Jan 20th 2017<br/> "The idea that if housing is built near public transportation, people will get out of their cars is a pipe dream.  All studies show that people still drive and they still have cars driving to them, whether they have a car or not (i.e. visitors, such as: deliveries, family, friends, support/medical people, boyfriend or girlfriend visits, overnights guests, Uber, etc.).  This has only increased traffic and parking problems.<br/>      People like and often need their cars and do not give them up.  The sheer amount of things that people use their cars for, such as work, errands, grocery-shopping, hauling things around, school/college, transporting kids, interests, a class, activities, taking a pet to the vet, doctor visits, etc often do not work well with public transportation time-wise, the need to still have to walk to where one is going, carrying items, having kids and/or pets along, and at all times of day and night and in all types of weather.  <br/>     For example, in a southern Calif city where affordable housing was built without adequate parking, the residential neighborhoods within a 1-2 mi radius have been overrun with people parking their cars and then walking to the developments.  In SF, some folks have chosen to rarely use their cars or not own one but end up taking Uber everywhere, which means 4 trips for a car vs 2 if the person had driven themselves, which has resulted in more traffic and congestion.  Another major issue involved in these laws and bills is that a town or city can no longer use things like not enough water or infrastructure to support more housing/residents as a way to prevent or reduce development.  Too bad for you, just cram more people in."<br/>   "Portland's Transit Experiment has Failed," by Randall O Toole. [http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=13719 http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=13719]<br/> "Back in 1980, Portland transit carried 10 percent of the region’s commuters to work. Since then, the region has increased its population density by 20 percent, spent $5 billion building nearly 80 miles of rail transit lines, and subsidized scores of high-density, mixed-use housing projects in light-rail and other transit corridors. The result is that, in 2016, just 8.0 percent of commuters took transit to work.~~<br/>  ~~ Upzoning will make land much more costly, so only high-end housing will be created. The occupants of such housing are relatively unlikely to use transit, and the development will displace lower-income residents who do use transit. [Platkin, 8 Feb 2018]:<br/> <br/> "The result will be a massive expansion of each affected parcel’s by-right building envelope, which, in turns makes each parcel far more valuable to real estate investors. The market value of these properties will shoot up, and new buyers and owners must therefore build expensive projects to recoup their higher land acquisition costs and still maximize their profits. Their need to build luxury buildings will increase, and their projects will, therefore, cater to the top end of the real estate market. Since these new owners and tenants own and drive cars, they are the least likely Angelenos to take transit, even when it is close to their house, condo, or apartment. And since they will displace poorer residents who are already transit users, transit ridership will go down further, a trend already underway in Southern California for the past five years."  ▼ === Would or could this support good mixed-use development and Transit Oriented Development (TOD) === Line 331 ⟶ 339: *'''Children:''' Asthma, ear nose and throat infections, smaller lungs, obesity<br/> <br/>     '''LA Times: L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick, March 2nd 2017''' [http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-freeway-pollution/ http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-freeway-pollution/] Line 374 ⟶ 384: === thread from Brian Hanlon (@CAyimby) calling for issues  === some of above, and possible more issues noted in thread: <br/> @hanlonbt 11:36 AM - [https://twitter.com/hanlonbt/status/949726260128899073 6 Jan 2018]<br/> "Please send me common objections to SB 827, thinks like concerns about demolition, reduction in bus service, etc... Thanks!<br/>   === Could allow 'mansionization' - giant single-family homes === ▲  "increased height limits of 45 to 85 feet...will accelerate mansionization. New mega-houses could reach three to five stories.  The selling prices of these monster houses will track their soaring height, and the new owners must, by necessity, be affluent. No one else could afford these multi-million-dollar castles. Nearly all of the new occupants will drive expensive cars, resulting in an enlarged carbon footprint, even when Metro Rapid busses, trolleys, and subways are close by."  [Platkin, Feb 8 2018].   === the housing this would enable is not the housing that most Californians need === [Platkin 8 Feb 2018]:  "the high-end market housing and luxury housing that SB 827 hopes to enable through deregulation does not address the unmet housing needs of most Californians. " "Los Angeles never sends out city inspectors to verify that landlords of affordable units charge reduced rents and house tenants drawn from lists maintained by LA’s Department of Housing and Community Investment and the Los Angeles Housing Authority. Reporter John Schwada’s on-site investigations revealed that property managers knew nothing about the official affordable units in their buildings. For this reason, Mr. Schwada concluded that many initially affordable apartments quickly revert to market rents." "Because SB 827 does not increase funding for cities to build, operate, or subsidize affordable housing, and because it has no on-site inspection requirements, there is no basis for its repeated claims that by increasing the supply of market housing, it also addresses California’s affordable housing crisis."  "[Supporters] claim that this new expensive housing will eventually become affordable through 'filtering,' [but] they concede that this hypothetical process takes 30 years to unfold. But even this claim is incorrect because the build-more-market-housing town criers cannot identify any market housing in Los Angeles that has magically transformed itself into affordable through filtering or over-supply. This affordable housing simply does not exist, and the market housing built 30 years ago is far costlier now because, among many reasons, all housing constructed after 1978 is exempt from LA’s rent stabilization law." === Negative environmental impact by exempting projects from [[CEQA\|CEQA]] and causing larger homes & more driving === [Platkin 8 Feb 2018]:  "According to California State planning law...discretionary planning and zoning actions, in turn, trigger [mandatory review under] the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).   "Because SB 827 imposes its broad changes to local planning and zoning ordinances by fiat, not by a deliberative and environmentally-informed local legislative process, it completely eliminates the use of California Environmental Quality Act to evaluate municipal land use decisions and determine which are the most sustainable.  "Therefore, the claim that SB 827 benefits the environment is absurd. SB 827 is the most powerful piece of statewide legislation that I know to eliminate the application of CEQA to local land use decisions. If SB 827 were enacted, its imposed zoning waivers and their multiple environmental consequences would slide through without any CEQA-mandated review.  "While blocking CEQA will certainly please the developers who fund Wiener and who will tremendously benefit from his legislation, the environmental consequences of SB 827 are nevertheless there for all to see. It will increase the size of McMansions, inflate property prices in much of Los Angeles, raise rents and selling prices, and encourage the replacement of poorer, transit dependent residents with well-off automobile drivers, living in new energy intensive residences."    Line 573 ⟶ 609: === Exclude rent-controlled units === === <br/> Charter cities such as LA may be able to opt out of the bill === [Deegan 2018]<br/> "Being a [https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Resources-Section/Charter-Cities/Charter-Cities-A-Quick-Summary-for-the-Press-and-R charter city], as approved by Los Angeles voters in 1924, allows voters to determine how their city government is organized and, with respect to municipal affairs, enact legislation different than what is adopted by the state. This gives charter cities the supreme authority in municipal affairs, including land use, that will trump a state law governing the same topic."     Line 590 ⟶ 632: Aickin, Sasha. “[https://transitrichhousing.org/ What would SB 827 really look like?]” [interactive California map showing transit-rich areas according to current bill].  9 January 2018. [https://transitrichhousing.org/ https://transitrichhousing.org/].<br/>   Bachrach, Eve, and Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens. “[https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/los-angeles-destroying-affordable-housing-stock-build-luxury-apartments/ Is Los Angeles Destroying Its Affordable Housing Stock to Build Luxury Apartments?]” UCLA Lews Center, Jan 2018. <br/> [https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/los-angeles-destroying-affordable-housing-stock-build-luxury-apartments/ https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/los-angeles-destroying-affordable-housing-stock-build-luxury-apartments/].<br/>   Bronstein, Zelda. "[http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14886-yimby-wiener-s-war-on-la-and-other-local-planning YIMBY Wiener’s War On LA … and Other Local Planning]." ''CityWatchLA, ''12 Feb 2018. <br/> [http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14886-yimby-wiener-s-war-on-la-and-other-local-planning http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14886-yimby-wiener-s-war-on-la-and-other-local-planning].<br/>   California Government Code. "[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=7.&title=1.&part=&chapter=16.&article= CHAPTER 16. Relocation Assistance [7260 - 7277]."] [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=7.&title=1.&part=&chapter=16.&article= https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=7.&title=1.&part=&chapter=16.&article=].<br/>   California Legislative Information. "[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827 SB-827 Planning and zoning: transit-rich housing bonus]." [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827. ]<br/>   California YIMBY Tech Network. "[https://cayimby.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SB-827-Tech-Network-Letter.pdf RE: SB 827 (Wiener) ZONING NEAR HIGH-QUALITY TRANSIT -- SUPPORT.]" January 24, 2018. [https://cayimby.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SB-827-Tech-Network-Letter.pdf https://cayimby.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SB-827-Tech-Network-Letter.pdf].<br/>   Council of Infill Builders [California]. “[http://www.councilofinfillbuilders.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SB-827-Support-Council-of-Infill-Builders.pdf SB 827 Support – Transit-Oriented Housing Bonus.]”  Support letter, 9 January 2018. [http://www.councilofinfillbuilders.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SB-827-Support-Council-of-Infill-Builders.pdf http://www.councilofinfillbuilders.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SB-827-Support-Council-of-Infill-Builders.pdf].<br/>   Deegan, Tim (2018). "[http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14888-could-a-nightmare-worse-than-mansionization-be-lurking-in-sacramento Could a Nightmare Worse than Mansionization be Lurking in Sacramento?]" ''CityWatchLA, ''12 FEBRUARY 2018. [http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14888-could-a-nightmare-worse-than-mansionization-be-lurking-in-sacramento http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14888-could-a-nightmare-worse-than-mansionization-be-lurking-in-sacramento].<br/>   Democratic Socialists of America, Austin chapter (DSA Austin 2018). "[https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1KD6JtmdeWubVfGOp-hCajUEbrMj5FqVqUhCwqBkdSJU/mobilebasic Austin DSA Housing Committee CodeNEXT Demands]." January 2018. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1KD6JtmdeWubVfGOp-hCajUEbrMj5FqVqUhCwqBkdSJU/mobilebasic. https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1KD6JtmdeWubVfGOp-hCajUEbrMj5FqVqUhCwqBkdSJU/mobilebasic. ]<br/>   Dillon, Liam. "Get ready for a lot more housing near the Expo Line and other California transit stations if new legislation passes<br/> housing expo line." ''LA Times. [http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-transit-bill-20180104-story.html http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-transit-bill-20180104-story.html].''<br/>   Line 607 ⟶ 651: McKinsey Global Institute<sup>1</sup>. “A[https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/closing-californias-housing-gap tool kit to close California’s housing gap: 3.5 million homes by 2025.]” October 2016. [https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/closing-californias-housing-gap https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/closing-californias-housing-gap].<br/> <sup>1</sup>Jonathan Woetzel, Los Angeles; Jan Mischke, Zurich; Shannon Peloquin, San Francisco; Daniel Weisfield, San Francisco. <br/>   O'Malley, Becky. "[http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2018-01-06/article/46357?headline=SB-827-Skinner-D-Berkeley-will-destroy-local-land-use-control--Becky-O-Malley SB 827 (Skinner, D-Berkeley) will destroy local land use control.]" ''Berkeley Daily Planet'', 6 January 2018. [http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2018-01-06/article/46357 http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2018-01-06/article/46357]. [mostly quotes Goodman, 5 Jan 2018]. <br/>   Platkin, Dick (Feb 8, 2018). "[http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14863-the-more-you-stir-it-the-more-it-stinks-new-planning-legislation-from-sacramento The More You Stir it, the More It Stinks: New Planning Legislation from Sacramento]." ''CityWatchLA''.  [http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14863-the-more-you-stir-it-the-more-it-stinks-new-planning-legislation-from-sacramento http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14863-the-more-you-stir-it-the-more-it-stinks-new-planning-legislation-from-sacramento].<br/>   Reyes, Emily Alpert, and Zahniser, David. “[http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aids-foundation-political-spending-20170221-story.html So why is an AIDS nonprofit suing to halt construction and pushing for Measure S?]” ''LA Times'', 24 Feb 2017. [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aids-foundation-political-spending-20170221-story.html. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aids-foundation-political-spending-20170221-story.html. ]<br/>   *Romero, Dennis. “[http://www.laweekly.com/news/battle-over-development-covets-the-hearts-and-minds-of-las-minorities-7992660 Battle Over Development Covets the Hearts and Minds of L.A.'s Minorities].” ''LA Weekly'', 6 Mar 2017. [http://www.laweekly.com/news/battle-over-development-covets-the-hearts-and-minds-of-las-minorities-7992660 http://www.laweekly.com/news/battle-over-development-covets-the-hearts-and-minds-of-las-minorities-7992660].<br/>

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