YOU ARE INVITED TO A VIRTUAL 'STOP SB 330' (another SB 50!) TELECONFERENCE TONIGHT!
Coalition to PreserveLA and STOP SB 50 Updates....
Please share with your Neighbors and Communities...
OK, now we FIGHT BACK again......
SB 330 & AB 1279 (and SB 50 isn't dead)
SB 330 IS ANOTHER SB 50 - WE MUST STOP IT NOW!
TONIGHT! YOU ARE INVITED! -
A Virtual Lobbying teleconference tonight - Thurs. June 6, at 7:30 pm. - We will summarize SB 330 and provide you with simple actions to kill it. - We will provide sample letters and sample phone scripts ahead of time. - Your job will be to lobby Sacramento from the comfort of your home!
TELECONFERENCE NUMBER: 605-313-4400; Access code: 870 559
SB 330 could be heard in committee next week! We MUST push back, statewide,THIS WEEK.
Our last Virtual Lobbying push (against SB 50) generated some 400 calls & letters to legislators.
From you very real people, not from robo-forms.
It was a BIG DEAL in Sacramento.
STOP SB 50 Newsletter - No. 7 - June 6, 2019
THE SAME LOBBYISTS & LEGISLATORS WHO BROUGHT US SB 50 ARE AT IT AGAIN. Their strategy appears to be to dismember SB 50 into pieces, and then try to sneak these mini-bills through the state Senate and the Assembly before we realize what is going on.
Here are two such sneaky bills we need to OPPOSE: SB 330 AND AB 1279. IN ALL THESE BILLS, OUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO HAVE A SAY IN OUR LOCAL ZONING IS STOLEN BY WALL STREET-FUNDED DEVELOPERS and the LEGISLATORS WHO DO THEIR BIDDING. CALL TO ACTION: Call your state senator, and tell the staff person who answers to tell your state senator that you are dead set against these two terrible bills:
• OPPOSE SB 330.
It does away with single family zoning in so-called "opportunity areas" (which are not defined) and because it is a perfect vehicle to gut and amend and bring back SB 50.
• OPPOSE AB 1279.
THIS IS A MINI-SB 50, imposing mandatory upzoning statewide.
Single-family homes would be able to be torn down and turned into four-unit buildings - without notice to neighbors or your city council; no city planning; no one (except you) paying for new infrastructure; no money for new schools, police, fire dept; you and your neighbors have NO RECOURSE.
There is NO exemption even for HPOZs (historic districts), resulting in massive losses of California's historic heritage.
Single-family home neighborhoods would be forced to be upzoned statewide in vaguely-worded "jobs-rich" areas (virtually all of Southern California). [BTW: RICHARD BLOOM - Assemblymember of District 50 (Mid-Wlshire and West LA/Santa Monica) is responsible for authoring this bill. If he is your Assemblymember, give him a piece of your mind on this bill!] LOCATE YOUR STATE SENATOR HERE: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
SOME LOS ANGELES AREA STATE SENATORS & ASSEMBLY MEMBERS:
State Senator Ben Allen (26th District): 1+ 310 - 318-6994
State Senator Holly Mitchell (30th District): 1+ 213 - 745-6656
State Senator María Elena Durazo (24th District): 1 + 213 - 483-9300
Assemblymember Richard Bloom (50th District): 1+ 310 - 450-0041
Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager-Dove (54th District): 1+ 310 - 641-5410
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (63rd District): 1 + 562 - 529-3250
Assemblymember Miguel Santiago (53rd District): 1 + 213 620-4646
_________________ THOUGHTS - AREN'T OUR STATE SENATORS AND ASSEMBLY MEMBERS SUPPOSED TO WORK ON OUR BEHALF? THESE BILLS ARE SIMPLY BETRAYALS AND STABS IN THE BACKS OF HOMEOWNERS AND RENTERS. THIS IS CONFISCATION OF THE LIFE SAVINGS OF TAXPAYERS WHO INVESTED IN THEIR HOMES.
THESE BILLS TURN OVER OUR STOLEN SAVINGS TO PRIVATE CORPORATIONS.
AND THESE BILLS PUT MILLIONS OF RENTERS AT RISK OF EVICTION AND HOMELESSNESS.
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GOOD NEWS TO SHARE WITH YOU!
Joining the Los Angeles City Council, Long Beach, West Hollywood City Council, Beverly Hills, UNANIMOUSLY VOTED NO ON SB 50!
The Mayor of Pasadena says he will SUE if SB 50 passes.
NEW: Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand: Wiener's SB 50 is a Win for the Haves, Leaves Behind the Have-Nots:
NEW: SB50: Sticking it to SoCal:
http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2019/05/sb50-sticking-it-to-socal/
Los Angeles Times reporter, STEVE LOPEZ, on how SB 50 would negatively impact historic districts and monuments:
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-sb50-housing-20190508-story.html
Larchmont Buzz reporter, ELIZABETH FULLER, published an excellent and complete story about our SB 50 Townhall event at Temple Beth Am on April 30: https://www.larchmontbuzz.com/featured-stories-larchmont-village/town-hall-meeting-opposing-sb50-draws-large-crowd/
KCRW, 89.9FM aired a well-researched story by FRANCES ANDERTON about SB 50 and its impact on Historic Neighborhoods (podcast available on the upper right of this story):
The Larchmont Chronicle's Publisher went on the record OPPOSING SB 50; he published a Special Supplement about this bill and why it must be opposed: https://issuu.com/larchmontchronicle/docs/lc_special_supplement_05_2019 _________________