Frustration as Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10 are approved by Housing Committee

Excerpt from Livable California:

If you missed the Assembly hearing this week, one frustrated legislator said into a live mike, “How am I supposed to vote on that?” Other legislators expressed even worse frustration toward SB 9 and SB 10.

SB 9: Approved by the housing committee. The vote was 5 Yes, 2 “No Vote Recorded” and 1 No. This split vote tells us the Assembly is worried about killing single-family zoning statewide, an unprecedented experiment with the lives of 21M unsuspecting Californians.

“No Vote Recorded” is like abstaining, viewed as a soft No. Note: No affordable housing is included in SB 9.

SB 10: Approved by the housing committee with 6 Yes, 1 NVR and 1 No. For Assemblymembers who did not get this memo: SB 10 lets city councils to allow developers, without a hearing or CEQA, to build 14-unit luxury projects on single-family zoned, business-zoned, or apartment-zoned streets.

SB 10 allows 10 base units plus 2 ADUs (granny flats), and 2 Junior ADUs. Total: 14 luxury units. Note: No affordable housing is included in SB 10. See LA Times ad here slamming SB 9 and SB 10’s blindness to affordable housing. Click to reach the ad, on Page 9.

To see an important video on the impacts if these bills pass, click here.