SB9 and SB10 updates from Livable California.. From Yesterday's Citywatch..Former L.A. City Planner and regular Citywatch contributor Dick Platkin.. Rolling out the Red Carpet for Real Estate Investors: Q & A on CA State Senate Bills 9 & 10 Dick Platkin 12 August 2021 https://citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/22286-rolling-out-the-red-carpet-for-real-estate-investors-q-a-on-ca-state-senate-bills-9-10 Polling news: SB 9 and SB 10, are opposed by three out of four Californians, according to a poll by former Obama campaign pollster David Binder. The new poll found 71% of Californians oppose SB 9, and 75% oppose SB 10. These are landslide figures. The news came on the heels of an Aug. 7 town hall which drew a 1,100 person crowd from across the state, working to kill the bills when legislators return on Aug. 16. SB 9 ends single-family zoning across California, from rural villages like Angels Camp to dense L.A., letting developers build market-rate projects of 6 units where one home stands today. SB 10 lets nearly every city council in California override CEQA and voter initiatives to let developers build 14-unit projects where one house stood, from single-family streets in tiny Avalon to crowded San Jose. Because mainstream media is unaware of key provisions in the bills, it has fallen to community, environmental, homeowner and social justice groups to warn the public. Now we urge legislators to vote NO on bills opposed by 3 of every 4 Californians. Both bills are opposed by hundreds of city councilmembers, criticized by groups ranging from Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to the Planning and Conservation League, and opposed by vast Black and Latino homeowner areas in Southern California that are targets of the two bills. 500+ Ca. Elected Officials Support California Cities for Local Control Opposition: https://localcontrolca.com/documents/Supporters-List.pdf OPPOSE SB9.... https://localcontrolca.com/documents/position-letters/2021-0408%20SB9%20oppose%20letter.pdf OPPOSE SB10.. https://localcontrolca.com/documents/position-letters/2021-0321%20SB10%20oppose%20letter.pdf The Sierra Club wrote a Letter to Senator Wiener opposing SB10, because it will place lives at risk since Very High Fire Severity Zones are not exempted and there will be no environmental studies or CEQA to protect VHFSZ communities that will be at great risk, with no local control, or public participation, as SB10 densifies residential VHFSZ communities. (One reason Assemblymember Bloom could not support this bill as he represents many VHFSZs, including Whitley Heights)

Sierra Club is also opposed due to SB10 OVERRIDING voter initiatives. https://everythingsouthcity.com/2021/07/sierra-club-california-on-senate-bill-10-planning-and-zoning-housing-development-density-oppose/ SB 9 and 10 give developers carte blanche to destroy millions of yards, gardens and shade trees; build unbridled density in burn areas; bulldoze HISTORIC buildings. All without having to fund the needed water, evacuation routes, power, sewage lines, transit and schools. Here is the full poll by David Binder Research, funded by Housing is a Human Right. See Section 4, questions 36 and 37, for the final results. Please visit our site and our statewide allies: LivableCalifornia.org; United Neighbors; StopSB9.org; California Alliance of Local Electeds; California Cities for Local Control Don’t miss this issue on YouTube: How SB 9 and SB 10 Destroy South L.A. How SB 9 and SB 10 Destroy Our Urban Tree Canopy Why Homeowners Will be Driven Out By SB 9

STATEWIDE TOWN HALL... The Statewide Town Hall on Saturday had 1100 attendees! Everyone on the zoom was informed about the impacts of SB 9 and SB 10 and asked to take action, talk or write their assemblymember and the governor now. For everyone that missed the event, we are including below the one-hour video of the town hall and a video of each of the speakers. Most important are the follow-up actions to stop SB 9 and SB 10. See the Action Tool Kit Here. Also see the Statewide Town Hall - Next Steps page on the Livable California website. Simple Actions now are calling state assemblymembers to urge them to oppose SB9 and SB10. https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers All the reasons are here. Off hours are fine..leaving messages is just as effective... Write comments on your assemblymembers website page.. AND Governor Newsom To write a comment on his page: https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/ Phone: 916-445-2841 gavin@gavinnewsom.com The Assembly returns Aug. 16th. The bills go to the Governor Sept. 10th, if they pass. He does not have to do anything with them, express any position, until AFTER the recall. Once he signs them they BECOME LAW. Statewide Town Hall (without Q&A), 1 Hour https://youtu.be/xIxoHJZWyRE Dan Carrigg Speaks to the Dangers of SB 9 and SB 10, 17 Min https://youtu.be/zfdieRu7jvk United Neighbors Presentation, 13 Min https://youtu.be/MqXW_2qraCI Former Assemblymember and Tree People CEO, Cindy Montanez Says Don't Let SB 9 and SB 10 Destroy our Communities, 5 Min https://youtu.be/YFFCTgAu2Dc (Cindy is from City of San Fernando, whose city council unanimously voted to oppose SB9 and SB10, one of the working class single family communities that will be greatly impacted, that Senator Hertzberg represents, that he spoke eloquently about protecting these communities and their American Dream, from developer densification, wiping out single family neighborhoods, replacing them with market rate and luxury multi unit housing, when he opposed the bills in committee.) Cindy Montanez Speaks to Putting Pressure on the Legislators, 3.5 Min https://youtu.be/rhf4pwwADsQ Action Tool Kit Presentation, 15 Min https://youtu.be/TJvyfPPhCfc United Neighbors, is a coalition of homeowner and neighborhood groups that started here, by Maria Kalban of Sherman Oaks, a regular on Livable California state wide zoom meetings, and spread around the state very fast, and is still growing, united to fight these state bills, to keep local land use control, which is given to charter cities in the California State Constitution, but will be taken way.. UN had zoom meetings, actively reached out to state reps, and the governor, on going, and each group submitted 'Position Papers' and participated in the on going activism. Some unsung heroes of our neighborhod should be mentioned.

Thank you to FCC, our neighborhood group, 'Franklin Corridor Communities' who joined the UN coalition and stepped up to help protect our community against state mandated development that will take away local land use control, development project notifications, hearings, and public (community) participation, giving developers free (ministerial) reign to densify residential communities across the state, and 'the people', who reside in these communities, will not be able to do a thing about it. Here are the UN Members, (many are our neighbors), always listed, many with their beautiful LOGOS, in all UN correspondence to Governor Newsom: Adams Hill Neighborhood Association (Glendale) Baldwin Hills Estates Homeowners Association Brentwood Homeowners Association Brookside Homeowners Association Burton Valley Neighborhood Group- Lafayette Communities UnitedCD7 Century Glen Homeowners Association Chevy Chase Estates Association Citizens Preserving Venice Coalition of San Francisco Neighborhoods Coalition to Save Ocean Beach Comstock Hills Homeowners Association Country Club Park Crenshaw Manor Community Association Cresenta Highlands Neighborhood Association Cresenta Valley Community Association Culver City Neighbors United Doheny Sunset Plaza Neighborhood Association Elmhurst Neighborhood Association (Sacramento) Encinitas Neighborhood Group Fairfax Hills Families and Homes San Jose Franklin Corridor Communities Franklin/Hollywood West Residents Association Freemont Place Association Friends of Sunset Park Friends of Sutro Park (San Francisco) Grayburn Ave Club- South LA Hancock Park Homeowners Association Hidden Hills Homeowners Association Hilltop Neighborhood Association Hills 2000 Friends of the Hills- Los Altos Hillside Neighborhood Association Hollywood Knolls Community Club Hollywoodland Homeowners Association Homeowners of Encino Hyde Park Organization Partnership for Empowerment La Brea Hancock Homeowners Association Ladera Heights Civic Association Lake Hollywood Homeowners Association Lakewood Village Neighborhood Association Land Park (Sacramento) Larchmont Village Neighborhood Association Laurel Canyon (We are Laurel Canyon) Los Feliz Improvement Association Lower Hastings Ranch Association Mangan Park Neighborhood Association (Sacramento) Mid-City Santa Monica Miracle Mile Residential Association Montecito Association Montrose/Verdugo City/Sparr Heights Neighborhood Assoc. Neighbors for a Better San Diego New Horizons S. Bay Association North of Montana Neighborhood Association Northwest Glendale Homeowners Association North Westdale Neighborhood Association Old Agoura Hills Old Torrance Neighborhood Association Ontera Hillside Alliance (Eagle Rock) Protect San Pedro Mountain Palo Alto Neighborhood Association College Terrace Neighborhood Association Residents Cross City Safety& Sanity (RXSS Santa Monica) Ridgewood Wilton Homeowners Association Riviera Homeowners Association (Torrance) Royal Canyon Property Owners Association (Glendale) South Cathay Neighborhood Association South Shores Community Association- San Pedro Save Lafayette ( Bay area- Walnut Creek) Save Oaks Savanna Seaside Neighborhood Association (Torrance) Shadow Hills Property Owners Association (Foothills) Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association Sherwood Town Homes South Mar Vista Neighborhood Association Southeast Torrance Homeowners Association Southwood Homeowners Association Southwood Riviera Homeowners Association (Torrance) Southwood Sunray Spaulding Square Neighborhood Association St Andrews Square Neighborhood Association Studio City Residents Association Sullivan Canyon Property Owners Association Sunset Square Neighborhood Organization Sutro Ave Block Club (Southeast Leimert Park) Tarzana Property Owners Temecula Valley Neighborhood Coalition Toluca Lake Homeowners Association United Homeowners’ Association (View Park, Windsor Hills, View Heights) Upper Curson Neighborhood Association Upper Nichols Neighborhood Association Valley Village Residents Association Verdugo Hills Residents Verdugo Woodlands West Homeowners Association West Mar Vista Residents Association West Toluca Lake Residents Association Westwood South Of Santa Monica Homeowners Association Westwood Hills Property Owners Association Westwood Homeowners Association Willow Glen Neighborhood Association - San Jose Wilshire Vista Neighborhood Association Wilshire Park Association Wilshire Village Windsor Square Association Woodland Hills Homeowners Organization unitedneighbors.net