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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by nouveaux on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:16AM (#34912427)
This might be true in an area with gentrificiation but this is unlikely to be true in wealthy areas. Cupertino, as an example, is struggling with the last generation not moving out. The end result is a lower population of kids.

https://patch.com/california/cupertino/cupertino-councilmemb...

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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by yongjik on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:41AM (#34912806)
This.

Many of those vilified "high-paying tech jobs" are young and have school-age kids. I am one of them (well, except I'm not that young), and almost all my friends in the SV area are the same. I go to work and half of the team have a kid or two.

It's not tech workers pushing out parents: they want to be parents and settle down. It's old grandmas in three bedroom single houses refusing to move out.

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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by kspacewalk2 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:42AM (#34912828)
To be clear, the grandmas can refuse to move out, and it's their right to refuse. What's not their right is to have veto powers over what is built on adjacent properties they don't own.
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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by jxramos on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:42AM (#34912832)
Wow, this bit was pretty surprising

> The school board had cited declining enrollment, funding issues and voters’ rejection of a parcel tax as reasons for closing the two schools.

I'm very intrigued that the Cupertino voters rejected a parcel tax, I've seen so many of those in my town and they all pass. They typically go something like "shall the City of Cupertino collect a parcel tax at rate XYZ for the next ZZZ years to replace aging air conditioning and plumbing and other aging building facilities?".

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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by rcpt on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:54AM (#34913011)
It's possibly because of Prop 218. One of Howard Jarvis's more insidious laws which requires that local taxes get 2/3 of votes to pass.
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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by jxramos on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:12PM (#34914234)
that's interesting, I wonder why it never changed. Been on the books since the late 90s it sounds like.

    Ratified November 5, 1996
    Date effective November 6, 1996; 26 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_21...
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Re:95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority by rcpt on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:29PM (#34914450)
HJTA is extremely powerful in California. Voting demographics skew towards anti tax property owners and they have zero problem crushing everyone else.
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