FROM LIVABLE CALIFORNIA... Dear Neighbors, We urge you to join your neighbors across California to testify ON THURSDAY, April 22nd, via phone, against the TWO WORST BILLS of the year, SB 9 and SB 10 (See call-in info below)

1) OPPOSE SB 9, the “6-Unit Luxury Rentals Where 1 Family Home Sits Now,” a tortured bill by Sen. President Pro Tem Toni Atkins that died last year as it was the hated SB 1120 bill.

Talking points...

• Atkins penned an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee and in a letter to the San Diego Union-Tribune insisting SB 9 allows 4 units, no more, where a single-family home sits now.

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• Sen. Atkins is panicking. Analysts agree SB 9 is a radical experiment with 21 million lives, allowing all 7 million single-family homes in California to become dense rentals owned by pension funds and rental giants. It’s all allowed by SB 9!

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• Atkins rewrote SB 9 in April in response to withering criticism, but she STILL allows at least 6 units.

• Both densities -- 4-units and 6-units – are a dog whistle to investors, to bid against families.

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• Amidst nationwide coverage about pension funds and rental giants buying up single-family homes, it’s wrong for California State legislators to vote YES on SB 9.

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• Hundreds of thousands of Black and Latino homeowners in Southern California will be targeted.

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• They live too close to airports, freeways and major commercial centers.

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2) OPPOSE SB 10, the “10-Unit Buildings Everywhere” bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener. Talking points... Part One of Wiener’s horrific SB 10 allows:

• Luxury projects of 10 units everywhere. No affordable units required!

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• Overrides all local zoning on almost everyone’s streets.

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• Any land in the general vicinity of jobs or transit can have 10-unit buildings.

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• Any land deemed “underutilized” can have 10-unit buildings.

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• 10-unit buildings next to schools, single-family homes, name it!

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• Kills CEQA review entirely (NO Environmental Studies) , and public hearings entirely.

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• City councils would vote to approve or disapprove each 10-unit project.

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• We predict developers will pour “SB 10 money” into city council races.

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• This isn’t local control, it’s local out-of-control.

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• Local corruption by developers will be SB 10’s greatest achievement.

Part Two of SB 10.... Lets any City Council OVERRIDE VOTER APPROVED BALLOT INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT LAND. This OVERRIDES VOTERS' 108-year-old CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to THE INITIATIVE:

• SB 10 LETS CITY COUNCIL OVERRIDE::

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• Open space approved by voters.

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• Canyons or shorelines protections approved by voters.

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• Urban growth boundaries approved by voters.

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• Height limits approved by voters.

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• Rural or farmlands protected by voters.

THERE IS NO AFFORDABLE IN THESE BILLS IN THE MIDST OF AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISIS. The call-in number will be issued Thursday morning. It will be posted at senate.ca.gov, in the black bar at the top of the page you will see "committees" click that. Find the committee, "Government and Finance" and click on that. It will then take you to that day's schedule and links to the hearing with instructions for calling in and with the call in number. SB9 and SB10 are 'one size fits all' state mandated development bills across the whole state of very diverse California, with cities, and areas with very different needs

For more info about SB9 and SB10, diagrams of what our neighborhoods will look like if these bills pass, etc. visit unitedneighbors.net or livablecalifornia.org Sen. Ben Allen (our Senator) opposes SB9 and SB10. Sen. Patricia Bates and Sen. Ochoa Bog both opposed Sen. Atkins SB9 at last weeks Senate Housing Committee meeting and voted NO. Los Angeles Chief Legislative Analyst recommended Los Angeles OPPOSE SB9 & SB10. L.A.s position on state bills matter... Councilmember Koretz submitted to L.A. City Council that they should oppose SB9 and SB10. He admitted without CD4 Councilmember David Ryu it's been challenging.. They both led L.A.City Council to a unanimous opposition vote against Sen.Wieners SB50 awhile back to protect L.A. neighborhoods....and SB50 failed.

Santa Monica City Council, and others, OPPOSE these bills. SB 9 (Atkins) – Housing development. – Oppose! SB 10 (Weiner) – Planning and zoning. – Oppose!