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Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord)
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In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing. Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!
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Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord)
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I am genuinely speechless. CEQA reform is supposed to be the third rail of California politics. Never in my life did I think I'd see a narrow, targeted effort to exempt infill housing pass the assembly *unanimously*. This is a political earthquake. No other way to put it.
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Kyle Ferriter
@kyle_ferriter
This is some procedural advancement, or the chamber actually passed it? Does the other chamber still need to do its whole thing too?
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kylekatarn95🟢
@kylekatarn95
Jordan I am so proud of you guys and everyone involved in this bill. Such an important piece of legislation that needs to happen.
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Marco
@genericmarco
I see both assemblymembers from the Peninsula, Berman and Papan, in the tiny abstain caucus. Makes me think this is less “everyone’s convinced CEQA needs reform” and more “NIMBYs holding their fire for now”
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Maya Patel
@maya_remote
AB609's unanimous vote is a wake-up call. Regulatory landscapes are shifting fast. Stay agile or get left behind. Tech's pace isn't slowing.
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I’m like 1/3 the way into this thing. Why are people upset about this book? So far the authors are highlighting the fact that a lack of development is the primary contributing factor for high housing costs, and that red states are currently *dominating* in development.
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Hutch
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Alrighty let’s see what all the fuss is about
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈
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Wealthy people exist and it is better for everyone to let them pay for brand new high end housing than to have them outbid everyone else for existing less-expensive homes.
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celia
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My thing about the “build more housing” bs is that we don’t actually build more AFFORDABLE housing. In places like SF and NYC, where we don’t need more luxury housing, this is especially egregious. These types of developments aren’t even middle-income. They’re for the wealthy
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Cost to automate DC Metro - $5.65B Annual labor cost to run trains - $951.6M Automation would pay for itself in six years, and we could spend that money on more bus and train service w/o needing a bigger budget. A no-brainer.
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