Now that zonging laws have been done with, Will black, minorties, and other people now be able to buy homes in Atherton and Palo Alto?
In the end I donât think people need to worry that much. Nobody is going to build duplexes in Los Altos Hills. There wonât be any market for it. Most SFH owners wonât take the trouble of subdividing lots either. We are talking about very incremental change.
SB9 actually changed my buying plan. I now want to buy something with a big lot. In the future I may want to divide it up and give one piece to each of my two kids. Maybe add an ADU somewhere too so me and wife can continue to lurk around.
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When brute force of mob majority is used to overturn the established laws and convention, it should be a matter of concern. Because, they may target something, using the same modus operandi, that you want to protect.
That is total BS. Classic woke crap. Single family zoning is accepted practice throughout the country. And was first started in LA and NYC in 1916.
Who cares what people thought 100 years ago? People of all colors have been buying sfhs wherever they want since exclusion zoning was banned by the Civil Rights act 55 years ago. Their property values should not be attacked by revisionist woke politics. How ironic that a person of colorâs home will be devalued by his woke brothers cries of racism. I have no problem with upzoning in urban areas. But suburbs are a sanctuary from the overcrowded cities with crime, filth, noise and homelessness. Why bring that crap to everyone?
Any argument that uses the race card is intellectually dishonest at best. Berkeley is probably the least most racist city in America. Houston without zoning is a total mess.
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Idea of zoning and permitted land use are not BS. They lie at the heart of settlements. Every person has a NIMBY inside his heart. No one (even YIMBY) loves to invite trouble in his backyard. Lefts openly use race card, even against people who do not belong to the group accused of racism, if they speak against lefts ideas. Is Mexican or black Trump supporter a racist ?
I would like to see multi family housing in industrial commercial and retail zoned areas. For instance there is 33 acres in South Lake Tahoe across the street from airport. Zoned industrial. Who needs industry in Tahoe. Should have high end condos for wealthy tourists and second home owners who would fly in on their private planes. The lot is only $799k. Plenty of .2 acre sfhs zoned lots cost more than $250k. Plus it would be easy to bring commercial air travel back to Tahoe. In the 70s commercial flights toSF were $30.
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That is why land use and zoning is prerogative of local authorities. They is why all these recent state level laws to ban Single Family zoning in CA are illegal and misguided and goes against principals of legislation. When did last California legislature make a good decision? Will blacks, minorities and immigrants now be able to buy a home $4 million home in SFO, like the one below?
I would sure like to build 150 of those $4 m homes on that 33 acre lot in Tahoe. Wonât happen in my lifetime.
Yes, but there are more who do not want those.
Housing is desperately needed in Tahoe. At $4m each I could afford to build another 150 affordable low income apartments for the working class⌠too sensible a solution fir our brain dead bureaucrats.
We finally got an an offer after 15 years on our 40 acre parcel in Bakersfield. 240 paper lots. Imagine how long this Tahoe lot will take to get approval
I do not know enough about Tahoe. But, I have said it that zonning and land use is a matter of local consideration. I cannot say much except that you have to be respectful of the right of NIMBYs. That is why Sacramento level legislation to intrude into rights of NIMBYs is a bad policy.
Nobody lives in that area. All industrial zoned. No houses. The neighborhood has the airport and a gravel pit plus boat storage. I am going to tie it up with an offer. I could make money with one house. Can you imagine the profit potential on 150 homes?
Plus I could become the town philanthropist if I could build the affordable homes. Our course there will be opposition. People come out to protest anything and everything. But now we have homeless just like the big city.
Having trouble with history?
Where Did Single-Family Zoning Get Its Start?
In none other than true-blue Berkeley, California.
The progressive Bay Area enclave was the first city in the country to implement single-family zoning. It adopted the zoning rule for the Elmwood neighborhood in 1916, making it illegal to build anything other than one home on one lot in the neighborhood.
Google more ⌠sfhs started in LA and NYC. Garbage in Garbage out. You can find anything you want it you Google it they way you want it. It is amazing that a Berkeley study picks Berkeley as the most racist.
It figures . Berkeley has been racked with white guilt since the 60s.
Keyword: single family zoning.
NYC had sf zoning before Berkeley. It was a time of Revolution. Women voting, prohibition, Russian Revolution, WWI. Income tax . The beginning of the modern world. Now the woke generation wants to turn everything upside down. Well at least I hope they get rid of income tax.
History is not a convenient topic. When going back into history, one cannot choose a startpoiint that is convenient to ones viewpoint and think that no history exists prior to that. It is like followers of religious leader A believing everything before birth of A was ignorance, or the history starts after A turned 21. I find it so amusing to read Single Family Residence zoning having a exact start date as being pushed here.
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That Berkeley myth is pushed by a Berkeley study to show how woke they are. But zoning was a new idea in 1916 and helped create the modern suburbs which were basically created by cars. Cars let us escape cities. Now urbanites want us all to live like them.
The Trump movement is all about the rejection of urban America. A new Revolution
It has become a very common practice to selectively choose truths to their convenience and agenda. Looks like @manch wants high rises everywhere and donât really appreciate suburbs. Seems to think SFH zoning is the root of all the problems causing the economical divide in Bay Area⌠
Eliminate SFH zoning, and what is next allow a strip bar in the middle of SFH? Zoning and ordinances are essential to facilitate orderly development of a civilization.