SB9 ACTION ALERT!
LIVABLE CALIFORNIA ACTION ALERT:
As Torrance City Council Member, Mike Griffiths, a Livable California regular, when he was a guest on KFI am Radio this week, said ..
"Sacramento bills SB9 and SB10 are 'A WAR on Single Family Neighborhoods and people better wake up because these bills are close to passing"
They will end single family zoning across the state, change California as we know it, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Local LAND USE Control will be GONE.
There are hundreds of thousands across the state fighting these bills, but still many don't know about them or are not taking them seriously.
There is huge tech, real estate, and developer money behind the bills, and the authors pushing them.
They are 'developer accommodating' bills. Sen. Toni Atkins and Sen. Scott Wiener’s hated bill SB 9 (Son of SB 1120), will be quickly heard in the Assembly Local Government Committee on Wed. June 9, at 1:30 pm. The public had no time to send their Opposition letters to the Assembly Local Government Committee. The committee’s agenda is set for June 9 We urge you to send your and/or your group’s opposition email, addressed to... Assembly Local Government Chair Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry.... Via the committee staffer who is still accepting emails from the Public: Hank.Brady@asm.ca.gov. Please send your letter opposing SB 9 to Hank Brady NOW!
If your community has not joined the hundreds of HOAs, and Neighborhood Groups across the state in orgs like United Neighbors, please submit as an individual. If you need some extra language for your letter, please see some good points against SB 9 at the bottom of this blast. SB 9’s authors have mounted a campaign to sell the hated SB 9 as modest change. The bill’s sly wording tries to imply SB 9 allows duplexes on split lots in single-family areas. This is INCORRECT. We and others have verified that SB 9 allows 6 units with no yard and no garage, on every single-family lot in California. Developers can come into your neighborhoods and split single family lot after single family lot.. In addition, Livable California found that cities can combine SB 9 with the state’s ADU (granny flat) law to allow 8 units where 1 home is today. SB 9 is an unprecedented and destabilizing attack on 7 million California single-family households, white, Black, Latino and Asian. SB 9 is NOT an equity bill. It’s a bulldozer bill. NEXT ACTION is on June 9!!: After writing today to Hank.Brady@asm.ca.gov, get ready for 1:30 pm... Weds., June 9... when... WE WILL ALL TESTIFY by phone against SB 9. We will send an ALERT the moment the Assembly Committee releases a public phone number for you to call in. Watch this space folks! Things are moving FAST! To receive Livable California Sacramento hearing information, updates, action alerts: contact@livableca.org Or visit: https://www.livablecalifornia.org/contact/ Using your own words, feel free to borrow our facts below, which undo the Wiener Inc. spin: SB 9 (Let’s End Homeownership, by Toni Atkins and Scott Wiener)
This divisive bill, which died in 2020 as SB 1120, crushes single-family zoning in California, a threat to 7 million homeowners. Wiener has called yards and single-family homes “immoral.” SB 9 is not a “duplex” bill. It allows 4 market-rate homes where 1 now stands (up to 6 units, if developers use a hidden “two-step” that Livable California’s volunteer attorneys spotted). Not one single unit will be affordable housing, a disgrace! SB 9 is the beginning of the end of homeownership in California, as investors and pension funds jump into bidding wars against families. Facing withering criticism, author Toni Atkins, in a Sacramento Bee op-ed, said her bill gives “homeowners the opportunity to reimagine their property.” No. Only the rich and developers can finance full-sized homes in the yard. SB 9 is a senseless gamble against 21M people living in 7 million homes they own. Strongly Oppose.
Livable California is a non-profit statewide group of community leaders, activists and local elected officials. We believe in local answers to the housing affordability crisis. Additional information and statewide groups opposing SB9 an SB10: