97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals

Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals by ebikelaw on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:52AM (#16359401)

That's what SB827 does. If a property is within the given radius from a transit station or a high-frequency bus line, minimum height limits are imposed (between 45 and 85 feet, depending on other factors) and all design controls (parking requirements, floor area ratio, setbacks, bulk) are rendered ineffective.

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Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals by Vi0 on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:11PM (#16360519)

Where in https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... does it say that?

65917.7.b.4.A and B both impose minimums on the maximum height limit that can be imposed. They do not impose a minimum on the height itself. This bill allows for building higher, it does not force it.

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Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals by ebikelaw on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:13PM (#16360550)

I said “minimum height limits” read (minimum)(height limits) i.e. the height limits may not be lower.

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Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals by Vi0 on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:55PM (#16360942)

That wording is a bit confusing. You might think about changing it to be minimums on height limits for better readability.

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Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals by ISL on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:18AM (#16359610)

Wow -- from afar, that's a great way to inspire local residents in bedroom communities to fight public transit.

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Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals by 0xB31B1B on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:11PM (#16360039)

I volunteer in the SFBA for housing and transit advocacy.

A loud minority of people already fight transit and successfully prevent it or water it down. The type of people who fight transit also fight housing. There isn’t really much headway for their coalitions to grow because they’re selfish old boomers who want to pull up the ladder, it’s not an message that inspires solidarity.

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Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals by logfromblammo on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:32AM (#16359715)

Which is exactly why it should apply uniformly to the whole municipality.

It's the same mentality that uses the "within X' of a school" that elides over the fact that a sufficiently large X will cover everything in the jurisdiction. The PLSS grid system put a school at every other corner, so there was a school every 2 miles, and no child would have to walk more than 1.414 miles to reach one. So if you had defined a zone "within 7500' of a school" that would have been a synonym for "everywhere" that bakes in "think of the children" to your legislation.

"Within X' of a public transit station" instead bakes in "think of the hordes of poor people".

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