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Re:Newsom signs legislation to boost California’s housing su... by handmodel on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:47PM (#28560239)
Previously, if cities did upzone, a neighbor could still sue their neighbor to stop them from building. In places like SF this means every project is tied down for years and hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal fees.

Now, you are effectively not allowed to do that. So the permitting process to build a duplex is as straightforward as the permitting process to build a SFH.

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Re:Newsom signs legislation to boost California’s housing su... by zbrozek on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:02PM (#28560366)
Which, to be clear, is still really hard in most places in CA.
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Re:Newsom signs legislation to boost California’s housing su... by handmodel on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:04PM (#28560386)
Definitely!

Someone else could explain better but I'm also fairly sure many of the new rules here (such as exempting CEQA) also apply to SFH. They just leave the current rules untouched for commercial/large-scale residential.

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