Why should Bel-Air care about Housing Bills from Sacramento?
SB 1120 is rushing toward the Assembly floor, possibly Tuesday. It crushes single-family streets and directly attacks homeownership by ending single-family zoning everywhere.
A yes on 1120 will allow:
One single-family house to be replaced by 4 to 8 rental units.
10-unit apartments built anywhere in our single-family neighborhoods.
Minimal or no parking requirements.
Minimal 4-foot setbacks from side and rear neighbors. (So, big unregulated apartments look right into your house and yard!)
Old trees unprotected because no environmental reviews required.
No infrastructure improvements to sewers, water, police, fire, or schools.
No community say on where housing is added.
No off-site improvements like new curbs, storm drains, gutters, and sidewalks.
All this in our single-family neighborhoods!
These bills are a sham and simply reward developers who aren’t required to add any affordable housing.
Our communities will all be devastated!
No community will be exempt: not gated, not hillside, not even vulnerable communities like South LA!
SB 1120 is rushing toward the Assembly floor, possibly Tuesday. It crushes single-family streets and directly attacks homeownership by ending single-family zoning everywhere.
TODAY, RIGHT NOW, contact your Assemblymember, found HERE, AND call your city councilmember and press her or him to ALSO tell the Assemblymember to OPPOSE SB 1120.
Legislators fear the wrath of punitive senate president pro tem Toni Atkins, married to a developer. Atkins spent 2020 conjuring up luxury housing bills. Almost NOTHING for the poor.
Now is time to insist that your assemblymember represent YOU, not Atkins.
Here’s our ASK: Call your city council member and urge THEM to call your assembly member to vote NO on SB 1120. Then YOU ALSO call your assemblymember and urge a NO vote.
SB 1120 is an attack on homeownership at all incomes. It harms 21M people. It lets rental giants build four pricey market-rate rentals where one home now stands. No yard, no garage. It shuts out homeownership across California.
California Alliance of Local Electeds (CALE) today issued a Declaration of a California Crisis of Governance after legislators let SB 1120 slide by while the public is DISTRACTED by COVID-19.
We praise another truth-teller, the California Contract Cities Association, a statewide group whose elected officials represent millions of voters. They hit SB 1120 hard today.
What’s happening is wrong. Legislators’ motto should NOT be “never let a good crisis go to waste.”
PLESE CALL YOUR CITY COUNCILMEMBER NOW.THEN CALL YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER AT THEIR DISTRICT OFFICE, FOUND HERE. URGE THEM TO OPPOSE SB 1120
Bel-Air area Representatives:
State Assembly Member Richard Bloom (District 50)
State Senator Benjamin Allen (District 26)