In-Person Meeting Tomorrow
Now is your chance to find out the landscaping plans for a portion of the San Vicente Median. Councilwoman Park is hosting an IN-PERSON meeting on Saturday, August 9 11:00am to 2:00pm at St. Martin of Tours to solicit community feedback. Senator Allen is providing $1.2 million in funding to landscape the San Vicente Blvd median from Montana Avenue to Darlington. This is your opportunity to hear from StreetsLA about their plans and to provide your input on the plant and ground cover options and to get answers to your questions.
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Help Stop Another Bad Sacramento Housing Bill
Write our representatives today using these easy links! All you need to do is complete the contact form and write VOTE NO ON SB79 in the comments.
Assemblymember Irwin
Senator Allen Why we need to stop SB79: -
SB 79 does not increase affordable housing in California.Though the bill is titled “Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act,” it contains no requirement to build affordable.
- SB 79 preempts each community’s Housing Element
. Local Planning Departments have spent many years and millions of dollars to create their recently certified State-mandated Housing Elements. Since each Housing Element is specific to its community, it already (a) identifies where new housing at all levels of affordability can be built and (b) addresses the federal Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing guidelines. California has enough zoning capacity for its State-mandated housing. SB 79 is an ill-conceived replacement for local planning insight, oversight and frankly unnecessary.
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SB 79 threatens to make our neighborhoods unrecognizable. Communities know how and where to build within their boundaries. They are uniquely equipped to meet the State’s housing mandates, sustainably-- to identify appropriate sites, to balance density with existing infrastructure, to protect open space, and to safeguard vulnerable communities from gentrification. SB 79 will override that local expertise and control and allow overbuilding to an extent that is hard to describe in words. In the many areas the bill designates as “Tier 2,” it would permit
42,600 housing units within a half-mile radius of a single bus stop.
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DON'T FORGET EXTENDED WEEKEND RAMP CLOSURES Caltrans has scheduled the closure of I-405 ramps and lanes in Brentwood for August 22-August 25. |
