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Chris Elmendorf
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New anti-demolition rules will probably nix SB 79 projects on pretty much every site w/ >2 residential units (as they're rent-controlled under state law). This *despite* the right-of-return & tenant-relocation payments already required under Housing Crisis Act. 1/2
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Chris Elmendorf
@CSElmendorf
I see that the CA Assembly has bagel-topped SB 79, @Scott_Wiener's upzoning-near-transit bill, by borrowing BMR minimums from AB 1893 (builder's remedy) without incorporating AB 1893's check on infeasible local IZ ordinances. Do we want housing near transit or not?
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Chris Elmendorf
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I am told the WA prog. coalition debated including demo controls, right of return, etc. in their statewide TOD bill & decided against. They thought providing *lots more new homes* for renters, lowering market rents, was more important. 2/2
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Chris Elmendorf
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But Washington's AB 1491--enacted earlier this year to little fanfare--is truly next level. Consider: ▶️ SB 79 proposes to upzone land near fixed transit stops; AB 1491 expands the geography to include bus-rapid-transit corridors. /6
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Andrew Lang
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Chris - say there's 3 lots that a developer has acquired for redevelopment - 2 SFH lots and 1 old duplex. Is the SB79 project they desire to put on this combined lot allowed (because none of the lots have 3+ units) or disallowed (because it's 3+ units on the combined lots...
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Robert Brown
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"I would like to build SB 79 units in San Francisco but unfortunately the anti-demo rent control rules don't allow it. But you people in Daly City San Carlos Menlo Park Palo Alto Sunnyvale etc. - you must allow them, and lots of them."
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Robert Brown
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Actually, it looks like not that many cities have rent control. In Bay Area, in CalTrain & BART loop, SF SJ MV Berk/Oak Richmond have controls, others not. Look like "lefty/commie" cities want to force other cities to develop and overbuild themselves, so lefties don't need to!
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