High-profile housing legislation to allow mid-rise apartment construction near mass transit across California advanced in a state Senate committee Wednesday after two lawmakers reached an agreement that would limit its effect on smaller counties and along the coast, but eliminate zoning that allows for only single-family homes in much of the state.UPDATE: One amendment exempts coastal cities of less than 50,000 people from most of the bill's upzoning provisions. Encinitas' population is about 63,000.
Under changes to Senate Bill 50, communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco and 13 other counties with populations larger than 600,000 would have to allow four- to five-story apartment buildings near rail lines, and smaller apartments and townhomes in wealthy neighborhoods near job centers.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
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And the America hating left....strikes again. Everything they do fails. And yet..........the brain dead continue voting for them.
ReplyDeleteThinking people agree this is a two-party scheme. The left thinks it's actually doing good and the right can't wait to laugh all the way to the bank.
DeleteBest to fight without invoking your one-side party propaganda.
9:05.......the left runs (ruins) California, true or false?
DeleteFools continue to vote in the left, true or false?
Everything the left does fails, true or false?
The State of California, run by leftists is suing the City of Encinitas because of lack of low income housing
TRUE OR FALSE?
I don't make these things up........it's facts. But, in the world of the left, facts don't matter. So for leftists is on the next lie and failure.
I will agree......it seems to be two party scheme but for laughing all the way to the bank on the right.........hardly. That would be another lie from the left
So says the guy whose information sources are Fox "News" and the Drudge Report.
Delete1:33......and there it is.....typical America hating leftist. Doesn't answer the questions. Darn that truth always getting in the way. The City of Encinitas is being sued by the State of California......the left. You better wake up
Delete3:00 Your conclusions are preposterous. Right-winger George W. Bush was president from Jan 2001 through Jan 2009. He presided over 9-11, the invasion of Iraq and the financial meltdown. Right-wingers stymied Obama through most of his presidency, not because they had better ideas but only to block the Dem. Right-wingers sucking up to Trump are now in the process of destroying American democracy. It's your views, 3:00, that are corrosive and destructive. They are born of ignorance and prejudice.
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ReplyDeleteBut in smaller counties, including Marin, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, cities would be required to permit height increases near rail one story taller than existing zoning as well as fourplexes in many single-family-only areas. Neighborhoods along the California coastline also would not have to permit buildings as tall or construction as dense as required further inland.
Seems like a good compromise....Encinitas is pretty much built out so this should have minimal impact to us.
Encinitas is not built out as far as developers and this council are concerned. Surely you've heard of "infill opportunities." Keep rezoning and keep building.
DeleteEncinitas is far from built out.
coastal cities under 50,000 are exempt, encinitas is not, build up and often let infrastructure be damned!
ReplyDelete10:12 - perhaps you're not aware, but SB50 will rezone single-family parcels to multi-family. So if your neighbor sells her single-family home, the buyer will be entitled to build high density.
ReplyDeleteYour built-out defense is out the window under SB50. Wake up, you and everyone else who thinks we're protected.
Wrong 12:10 - The bill will now allow fourplexes to be built throughout the state on VACANT residential land by-right (meaning no discretionary government approval is required).
DeleteAlso, the definition of what counts as a high-frequency transit stop was also pared back.
On the negative side, the result, however, is that a big opportunity to allow for the construction of cheaper suburban housing was missed.
12:10 - no one is protected - we all know that. And we also all know that we can't put a moratorium on building, and we also know that the pressure from the state will not subside, so it's time for all of us to be part of the solution and craft something that works. At least this is a start......
You're trying to solve a developer-manufactured and driven "housing crisis." It's been sold to do-gooder politicians who refuse to take an honest look at what this wrong-headed bill will do to our state and to greedy ones who stand to profit big time.
DeleteThe "solution" is to join the ranks of those who call bullshit, and just say no. Among many others opposing SB50 is a little town you may have heard of to the north of us, Los Angeles. It has a council with a spine that unanimously rejects SB50.
Pretending the emperor has clothes and taking the lid off construction "constraints," claiming it'll be affordable while knowing it won't be - exactly what problem does this solve??
I completely disagree! While I may agree that the development industry may be talking untoward advantage it doesn't mean that the housing crisis is not real - it is!! This is why we have ever increasing rents, ever increasing housing prices, ever increasing number of homeless, and ever increasing stratification of our population. You know what's truly shocking? The amount of homeowners that have been priced out of their own homes!! 12:36 - can you afford your own home today? What about your adult children?
DeleteI certainly do not advocate taking the lid off construction "constraints, but I do agree that more housing needs to be built throughout California. If that means we have to tweak our housing mix to make it happen, then overall it's a good thing.
This is what the Healdsburg rep McGuire said:
“A one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for every community in California, and the strategy of ‘no’ no longer works,” McGuire said. “No matter if you are a large city, a small city, an urban county, a rural county, everyone has to do their part to be able to combat this crisis of lack of affordable housing.”
This bill still has quite an uphill battle to get passed. That said, it serves to shape the discussion- and that's not a bad thing.
How many years has the state had the H.E. requirement? How come it has gotten worse? Please explain. Where are all the people who benefited from density bonus?
DeleteLook up Eckes and Meyers.
DeleteThe names are Ecke and Meyer.
DeleteThanks for providing correct spelling, Ecke and Meyer. You're the best!
DeleteYou get the SS award.
DeleteQuit diverting the question asked by 2:38PM Where's all the happy homeowners who got an "affordable house"? Where are they? The papers should be FULL of testimonies by these lucky folks. Where's the proof? How come these developers aren't showing any homes that they say they will build to "affordable standards"? Answer: THERE AREN'T any and this is all a BIG CON.
ReplyDeleteSo you’re suggesting that deed restricted units required by density bonus law and approved by city council have not been built at all?
ReplyDelete3:19, what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
BUILDspear! Low incoming high density housing is coming to Encinitas. I don't want to hear any complaining from those who voted for them.
ReplyDeleteBlakespoor- We welcome God Newsomes wish and will build section 8 on all our State lands including Seaside, Cardiff Reef, Torrey Pines, Swamiis, Moonlight, Beacons and Grandview.
ReplyDeleteThose that qualify will and should have beach front property... to make things fair for those less fortunate.
Way to go peeps for voting for these idiots.
Don't complain when we look just like Huntington Beach.
Although I admittedly made a huge mistake and voted for both Blakespear and Krantz in the last go around, I pledge I will not vote for them the next time. Please join me in this pledge to save our five communities within Encinitas which was the original mission.
Not only is Blakespear and Krantz welcoming higher density in Encinitas, they also welcome the homeless.
ReplyDeleteThey have to go. No. 1 enemy of Encinitas.
watch them both closely. bought and paid for.
Delete6:46 PM OK, I'll ask again. Where are all the happy owners of "affordable homes"? I expect more than the frenzied retort of a cornered bobcat. Sure, the density homes have been built and sold to whom? Other developers, that's who.
ReplyDeletethe frenzied retort sounded like Marco, the city's unofficial apologist. Don't expect actual examples, as you know they don't exist.
DeleteSo if they don’t expose themselves publicly to suit your purposes then they don’t exist?
DeleteThat seems like bullshit from a person who chooses to remain anonymous.
Huh? 1:57 is asking again where are the happy owners of "affordable homes." I'd also ask what is the rent/what did the units sell for?
DeleteDevelopers have referred to Encinitas as a "density bonus magnet." The city claims it provides affordable housing. Burden of proof is on them. And Marco, if he's going to keep running interference for Blakespear ;)
Where are they?
DeleteWell, it’s a Sunday morning, so some are probably in the kitchen having coffee. Others are out working in the garden. Some may be at church. I suppose some may also be out for a walk or surfing.
lol lol. myeah.
Delete4:16PM You're doing a good job of being anon yourself.
DeleteI'll show you mine if you show me yours!
The leftists in the California government are causing all of this. Once again......THEY ARE SUING THE CITY OF ENCINITAS over the housing issue.
ReplyDeleteYou people are not focusing your anger in the correct direction.
Try and think.
dude, you really think "leftists" run the BIA?? you try and think. sheesh.
Delete10:44........let me guide you to smarterdom. The City of Encinitas has been going to court as the State of California has set rules/laws in place that cities are required to have affordable housing. Try and focus as this gets harder.
DeleteThe City of Encinitas has/is being sued by a leftist California government to "force" the City to follow the law. The building industry benefits from the leftists forcing the low income housing. I never stated anything about the BIA......you made that up. You people think the mayor and the others have a choice in this matter....they don't. Wise up. I don't want low income anything, I don't want America hating leftists running California and I don't want leftist judges in dirty black robes deciding what gets built in the city I live in............just to be clear.
12:28 Your brain is mashed potatoes. Stop with the dots. You don't know shit, and you're terrible at expressing your warped views. Go away and shut the fuck up.
DeleteMashed potatoes is right. Whose name is on the suit against the city, 12:28? None of your conspiracy theories, what is the actual name on the actual legal doc? We'll wait.
DeleteScary thing is that 6:15 votes. The DF doesn’t even know who the plaintiffs are. Talking about the state, what a moron.
DeleteThis is all coming from the State of California, any suits from builders is "because" of the State of California.
ReplyDeleteI know it is difficult to comprehend but if the law didn't exist then ........oh never mind. A gaggle of dimwits feeding on their group think is to difficult to overcome. And, when truth is presented, gaggles eyes roll back into their sockets and they go into a frenzy, walking off the trail over the cliff.
"It's the State of California"...Were you dropped on your heads as babies............THINK
"The state, the state, the state." you must be on blakespear's payroll, taking up her tedious mantra that fools no one.
Deletethis housing crisis scheme and the laws to go with it were cooked up by the BIA and is now playing out legally courtesy of some greased hands in Sacto and likely here, too.
most cities are not taking this lying down, but sounds like you prefer to stay home and be part of the problem.
2:50 is a right wing idiot. Like most right wingers, his opinions are based in ignorance and prejudice.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course you believe in tolerance don't you?? Yup, those that scream tolerance are the most intolerant of all.
DeleteNo tolerance for willfully ignorant right-wing morons!
DeleteSo does your tolerance any limits?? Are you willing to tolerate sharia law?? Chopping off hands?? How about beheadings?? Throwing gays off buildings??
DeleteYup your an intolerable intolerant.
The Encinitas Council and Mayor just approved their own mini SB 50 with the approval of the new policies in the new Housing Element Update 2019. The Mayor writes about diversity, but Mayor Blakespear isn't telling the true story. Her diversity consists of million dollar houses built under the state's density bonus law on property where older low income housing was razed. A developer's promise to build one very low income house gets the developer 35% more market rate houses which exceeds the maximum zoning allowed.
ReplyDeleteCityMark's new density bonus subdivision Azure is advertised as 8 luxury homes priced at $1.9 million to $2.4 million. Several more Density Bonus developments from other developers will soon come to market. One low or very low income house isn't diversity. The million dollars prices are decimating what use to be affordable housing for the middle/lower class.
The 1,504 housing units on newly up-zoned property the Mayor quotes is 46% excess of the real number of 1033 low income housing units. HCD, the state housing agency doesn't have set percentages of what they consider adequate rezoning of property.
The Mayor/Council decided to up-zone more property at 30 units per acre (condos) now so they wouldn't have to do it in the future. On some of the properties this has set off a buying spree by developers. HCD has required that the owners of the properties say that they are interested in the up-zoning. However, there's no, none, nothing that HCD required that the 30 units per acre will be low income housing.
The pseudo EIR that was part of Measure U left a grime vision of traffic gridlock in Encinitas. Even now, on current applications for development, the school districts check the overcrowded box on the development form.
Will the developers build low income housing? No. At most the developers will build 150 low income units out of the 1504 housing units. Most of the new condos/apartments will be market rate. The Mayor/Council are so proud to advertise but not truly discuss in depth how it will provide the affordable low income housing with this housing plan.
To be clear - using the word affordable mean low income restricted housing. There's no plan for the middle or lower middle class for housing they can afford.
And there is no RHNA allocation for middle-class housing, so...take it off the table.
DeleteThe battle cry Blakespear picked up from her "intellectual powerhouse" idol Shaffer calls for "housing for all income levels." But that is not what the law Blakespear is so fond of quoting requires. What a two-faced sellout she is.
Tony backed a plan that screwed Leucadia and made us a dumping ground for high density development.
DeleteWe won’t forget, Tony.
"Affordable housing" is a euphemistic myth to placate the concept of social equality. If anything, it is a cynical deception to allow the developers to squeeze every last cent out of their community altering strategies.
DeleteAnd still nothing about the acreage and that run down school the city bought for 10 million dollars so sandal wearing greasy gray haired people could teach finger painting...........
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't that sold???........fools
Tony's face was front and centre on every photo op he could find when that purchase was made. He sure loved taking credit for that one didn't he.
DeletePlease stop Zionists destruction of free speech by emailing Representative Mike Levin.
ReplyDeleteDear Representative Levin,
I am writing to ask you to vote AGAINST a bill when it comes to the floor: H.R. 336 Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019.
Our Founding Fathers warned us against forming entangling alliances with foreign countries because such alliances end up dragging America into wars and conflicts that are not in our own interests. HR 336 further entrenches America in the business of Israel's geopolitical conflicts and guarantees that all of Israel's enemies, including terrorist groups, will perceive justification to attack Americans. HR 336 makes Americans less safe.
As you know, America is in deep financial trouble and is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. On the other hand, the state of Israel is one of the top nations in the world to consistently run budget surpluses. It makes no financial sense for hard working American citizens to be forced to send billions of dollars a year to Israel to support their military - especially when the entire world is united in acknowledgement and condemnation of Israel's brutal repression of the native Palestinian population.
Perhaps most importantly, HR 336 is an assault on the most basic, fundamental liberty enjoyed by Americans: freedom of speech. The US Supreme Court has ruled that how we choose to use our money is an exercise of our free speech rights. HR 336 encourages states to punish citizens for nothing more than the free exercise of speech related to their civic and moral convictions.
This bill is unconstitutional because it encourages states and local governments to enact laws that punish individuals and companies for exercising their right to engage in boycotts by denying denying them the jobs and opportunities to procure government contracts. Congress CANNOT encourage state and local governments to enact unconstitutional laws, yet that is exactly what HR 336 does. American citizens may not be denied government contracts over their choice to engage in boycotts. Laws of the kind being encouraged by HR 336 have repeatedly been deemed unconstitutional.
(continued) Three federal district judges have confirmed that such laws violate freedom of speech. In January of 2018, US District Judge Daniel Crabtree wrote in his decision: “The Kansas Law’s legislative history reveals that its goal is to undermine the message of those participating in a boycott of Israel. This is either viewpoint discrimination against the opinion that Israel mistreats Palestinians or subject matter discrimination on the topic of Israel. Both are impermissible goals under the First Amendment.” And, in September of 2018, US District Judge Diane Humetewa wrote in her decision: “A restriction of one’s ability to participate in collective calls to oppose Israel unquestionably burdens the protected expression of companies wishing to engage in such a boycott.”
ReplyDeleteAnd, on April 26, 2019, Judge Robert L. Pitman of the Western District of Texas also ruled that anti-BDS state laws are uncontitutional. Judge Pitman wrote that the Texas law was intended to “suppress unpopular ideas” and “manipulate the public debate through coercion”, which he ruled is a violation of freedom of speech.
It is my right - and yours - to express our displeasure with the illegal or immoral actions of other parties by refusing to do business with them. I'm not sure how you, or any other legislator, can stand by HR 336 when the right to boycott is as fundamentally American as can be.
Throughout the 1760s, in response to heavy-handed and unjust actions by the British Parliament (OUR government at that time), the American colonists engaged in a decade-long series of economic boycotts of British goods. These boycotts culminated in the famous Boston Tea Party. And yet, the Congress of 2019 has replaced the British Parliament as the body seeking to crush the freedom of Americans to boycott. Just as the British politicians of the 1760s felt they were justified in taking away the rights of Americans to boycott in response to an oppressive government, I'm sure that the American politicians of 2019 have their justifications. But tyranny is tyranny. The efforts by the British to prohibit Americans from boycotting were wrong then, as HR 336 is wrong now.
Boycotts continued to be utilized throughout American history to promote justice. There were boycotts of cotton to protest slavery. There were boycotts of public transportation to protest segregation. Boycotts of South African products helped to end apartheid. Today, many Americans support the Boycott, Divest & Sanction movement (BDS) as a protest against unjust treatment of the Palestinian people. In 2005 alone, more than 170 organizations called for boycotts of Israel - including notable Jewish-American groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace and the Israeli group Boycott from Within. There have been more than 250 BDS victories in America already, as cataloged by the USCPR, which demonstrates widespread American support for the BDS movement.
I'm asking you to stand against this encroachment upon our freedom of speech. I recognize that the Israeli lobby is powerful and it isn't easy to stand up to them when so many of your colleagues are under their control. But you were not elected to defend Israel. You were elected to defend the US Constitution - which protects my rights from the tyranny of a popular majority. I respectfully call on you to oppose HR 336 with all your influence. You must choose whether you will play the role of a British tyrant trying to crush the rights of Americans - or if you will play the role of a Patriot who defends freedom of speech, including the right to boycott without government recrimination. Should you choose to support HR 336, your support for this anti-American bill will not be forgotten when you next face a primary challenger.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Please call all three of Mike Levin's offices:
ReplyDelete(760) 599-5000 Oceanside
(949) 281-2449 Dana Point
(202) 225-3906 DC
Thank you for the consideration in protecting free speech for the next generation of Americans.
Scratch calling both Southern California offices as the calls go to the same nice young lady. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYou lost me at "Zionist" and "Jewish." I won't be calling Levin's office. Pity you can't make your point without wearing your bigotry on your sleeve, 3:31 - 3:39.
ReplyDeleteThe form letter above is a cut and paste from the Blackstone Intelligence Network.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.blackstoneintel.com/hr336
Formerly the End Times News Report, the name was changed when YouTube and Twitter threatened to shut them down for nutty conspiracy theories. The proprietor is Jake Morphonios, who is a regular on Russian tabloid news shows, and Russian troll farms established to destabilize and disinform American democracy amplify his crazy theories by reposting and retweeting.
Other nutty stories from Blackstone Intel include this gem: the Las Vegas shooting was a CIA Operation.
https://youtu.be/072WaJM6zVk
Whoever posted from this source is nuttier than squirrel shit.
Would almost be funny were these folks not so freaking far off their meds. Thanks for the background on this troll.
Delete10:35- Racist Dick. Your not welcome in Encinitas!
DeleteIf anyone test my hate button, its racists. FU.
Why don't you try looking beyond looks or religion and look toward character of the individual.
Stop reading bullshit conspiracy theory websites.
DeleteThat crap has rotted your brain, my dude.
Your head is filled with garbage, and you can’t figure it out because of the garbage.
Crybaby Nazi gets owned.
DeleteWhat a dummy.
Here Comes the Density indeed.
ReplyDeleteThis coming Thursday, our fine Planning Commission has put Surfers Point on the approval agenda, and not even an action item.
Just sweep it on through, hoping no one will notice.
35 unit time share hotel on that small piece of level ground? Nice view looking at the monstrosity of the beach hotel and Ponto Beach and the Baitquitos Lagoon.
Maybe the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation can offer an opinion on this, if it isn't too late already.
It never ends.
Well, on the other hand, something is ending, and rapidly so with the current city machinations.
Planning, of course , in onboard for every project proposed.
Traffic? What traffic. They don't see no stinking traffic. How nice for them and our council.
The City Hall is on the high density State/BIA/Covert Encintas to Huntington Beach band wagon.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't want to live in HB south vote for new blood in the next election. I am .
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