🔥 the letter-sending work @housingdefense.bsky.social does is boring but vital: in the best case, we help busy city leaders know what state law is, and in the worst case, we remind them it is enforced. You can help fund that work and get more housing, like this, built: calhdf.org/donate/
We do eventually need to fix the law so that these letters aren't required for standing purposes.
Yes, though increasingly I’m convinced they are a must-have anyway. Too many small-ish-town city leaders simply aren’t resourced to keep up with changes in state law. Providing this information doesn’t fix bad faith, but at least some operate in good faith and others DTRT in the face of a threat.
The fact that so many people still keeping citing sb330 for the rule that you can't deny zoning compliant housing shows yeah, they're just not up to speed.
Given the pace of Sacramento rule-making, I am unclear how any city management who aren’t 1️⃣ full-time and 2️⃣ supported by large-ish legal teams are supposed to stay in compliance. This is not an excuse—it definitely means we should be doing a lot more consolidation.
(Hottest CA urbanism take: make SF extend all the way to SJ again)
(Compromise position: SF goes all the way down to redwood city so that it incorporates the Pulgas Water Temple and SFO, SJ goes up to Redwood City, Santa Cruz extends to Pacifica and is renamed Long Chile)
“Out of your jurisdiction – crossed the city line into Philadelphia.”
Maybe use Devil's Slide as the boundary between Santa Cruz and San Francisco? I'm less sure about the SF/SJ boundary but I feel like RWC should probably be on the SJ side. On the other hand, I don't live there anymore...
Nuevo Columbia will just cover the entire Metro map