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How much rezoning would that actually require though? It might not be any depending on the math for what the city claims this current proposed rezoning accomplishes.
Screenshot from the San Francisco housing element with a section highlighted from the mid cycle review program with language that reads, “This additional rezoning and additional constraints reduction shall accommodate 115% of the shortfall, minus any capacity created by the rezoning(s) in action 7.1.1 in excess of 36,282 units.”
April 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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See:
Text from a 2023 report discussing supply constraints in the transformer industry
March 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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If local property tax revenues are high enough though, they get to keep that extra revenue...
March 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Did you know that safety was a pretext for racism? While this has been mostly forgotten, it still largely serves the same purpose: to segregate people by income.
In 1909, the National Housing Association (NHA) was formed, largely in response to concerns over the spread of multifamily housing. Lawrence Veiller, who had spearheaded the tenement reform movement in New York City, became its secretary. In the following years, NHA leaders and prominent city planners, led by Veiller, propounded on the evils of multifamily houses and advocated strategies to curb their spread. At the first annual conference of the association in 1911, the chairman of the Massachusetts State Housing Committee declared: "Towns... ought never to be cursed with tenement houses... and it may well be provided as a preventive measure that they shall be of fireproof construction." By contrast, a Hartford planner stated that the building code should "interfere as little as possible" (NHA Proceedings 1911, 73, 107). A Harvard professor explained why even the most expensive types of apartment construction were undesir-able, even for childless families: [Disease may pass from one apartment to its neighbor through the common hall and through the mediation of vermin which pass easily from one suite to another.... The sounds from neighboring apartments frequently make rest and quiet impossible. True privacy and solitude, though very important to the growth of the moral individual, are difficult to obtain. ... It becomes impossible for the mother of a family to choose her children's associates, to prevent her child from coming in contact with children or adults of unwholesome character who may reside within the same building. The mother cannot supervise the play of her child when outside of the apartment, and in general the atmosphere of the tenement or apartment house is one destined to Create a race of adults that is unhealthful, puny and socially highly artificialized (Ford 1913, 476). es ls BS X-. Veiller, concerned with strategy, proposed that legislation to prevent multifamily housing use indirect methods because "zoning legislation will no doubt be fought strenuously and perhaps defeated." He outlined an approach designed to make apartment construction, even of three-unit dwellings, prohibitively expensive: [DJo everything possible in our laws to encourage the construction of private dwellings and even two-family dwellings, because the two-family house is the next least objectionable type, and penalize so far as we can in our statute, the multiple dwelling of any kind. ... If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construc-tion; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even where there are only three families; if we require fire escapes and a host of other things, all dealing with fire protection, we are on safe grounds, because that can be justified as a legitimate exercise of the police power. ... In our laws let most of the fire provisions relate solely to multiple dwellings, and allow our private houses and two-family houses to be built with no fire protection whatever (NHA Proceedings 1913, 212).
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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LA County has a pharmacy license. . .
October 4, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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I’m not sure the county meets the prop’s definition of “entity.”
October 4, 2024 at 5:37 AM