PASZ has sent letters to the Palo Alto City Council requesting that the Council take immediate action to block implementation of the Regional Housing Needs Determination (RHND) recently announced by HCD and MTC/ABAG.
State Senator Scott Wiener has rushed bad bills through his Housing Committee which would destroy our neighborhoods and raise our taxes.
The current Coronavirus health crisis is affecting all our daily lives, and it is having a huge impact on two critical sources of news and information that our community has relied on for years and needs in this time of crisis – the Palo Alto Weekly and the Daily Post.
Livable California has set up a letter which you can sign and it will be emailed to all the State Senators to tell them you oppose SB-50.
Legislators should declare a moratorium on more legislation until the impact of the 40-plus housing bills passed in the last four years take effect,
By law, regional government agencies for the Bay Area—MTC/ABAG–must approve a new growth plan—Plan Bay Area 2050. The process must start by acknowledging that the previous Plan has failed to address those issues that have had a huge negative impact on life in the Bay Area. We must address these issues now or accept a continuation of an ineffective Plan for the next eight years.
A “gut and amend” technically may be legal but it is not necessarily moral or good governance. The gut and amend of SB 592 bespeaks of a legislator unable to accept consensus and all too willing to plan ahead and prepare bills that can then serve as vehicles for these kinds of legislative maneuvers. SB 592 is such a bill.
Huge office complexes are being actively pursued in downtown San Jose. Millions of square feet of office space, enough to nearly double the size of downtown San Jose’s office inventory, is in the development pipeline.
Just today (Thursday 6/13), Senator Scott Wiener did what we had heard and predicted that he would do — he gutted SB 592 held at the Assembly Desk since May 24, 2019 — and amended it to a new “Housing Accountability Act” now set for hearing on July 3, 2019 at 9:15 am before the Assembly Housing Committee.
More than a decade ago, Bay Area regional planning agencies launched a growth strategy intended to concentrate new jobs and housing at designated sites close to transit — so-called Priority Development Areas or PDAs.
