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Comment by MarkMarine | Hacker News Reader

There was a great article about this a couple weeks back:

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/ca-cities-to-lose-all-zo...

Basically, until these cities get a housing plan validated with the state, who is apparently sick of their crap like zoning in the middle of an active mall that will not be torn down, builder’s remedy is in place.

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Congrats to https://cayimby.org/ and https://yimbyaction.org/ for all their work on this!

Great organizations to get involved with if you care about other people being able to afford a place to live.

> until these cities get a housing plan validated with the state

I could see the cities just refusing to submit any plans at all. The state should then make its own housing plans with the developers directly. Cities should be cut out of the loop.

If they don't submit a housing element they don't get to have zoning (as they currently don't) and then what's the point?

There are many reasons it would be good for there to be a fallback zoning set by the state if a city is missing a housing element. For example, in that case builders could propose zoning compliance projects which have less legal ambiguity, are consistent with a general plan (and therefore already have environmental impacts studied for CEQA), and perhaps don’t have the same inclusionary zoning requirements of Builders’ Remedy projects.

SGTM

They seem to be trying any trick they can think of to avoid submitting a valid plan:

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-towns-mull-pla...

I don't know if Mr. Bean would be considered developmentally disabled, but I can't get the image of him being driven around while flipping off all the affluent people that support this out of my mind :)

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