Now SB 50 allows cities two years to adopt their own plans to achieve the bill’s central goal, which is to greatly increase the amount of market-rate and affordable housing built near transit and job centers [...] without increasing car travel or concentrating the new homes in low-income areas while leaving more affluent areas untouched. — The Los Angeles Times
Writing in The Los Angeles Times, opinion columnist Kerry Cavanaugh highlights some of the recent changes made to proposed legislation from California State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco.
Wiener's SB 50 measure is a statewide densification initiative that's been a work in progress for several years. The latest iteration of the far-reaching plan is aimed at pacifying local-control advocates, including members of the Los Angeles City Council, who would like more of a say in terms of how they might implement the proposal's mandate to modestly increase residential densities within a quarter-mile of high-frequency transit stops across the state. The bill could help the state reach its ambitious goal of building over 3.5 million new residential units across the state by 2025.
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