'Up and down the state, residents and local officials have been taking sides and lobbing barbs as SB 50 ... slips and slides through the legislative process, neither a sure bet nor a certain failure.' LATstevelopez weighs in:
Erich Anderson, who has lived in the Carthay Circle neighborhood since 1997, walks his dog, Becky. He and other neighbors fear that Senate Bill 50 being debated by California lawmakers would increase housing density.
. Among other provisions, the bill would require cities to allow multistory apartment buildings to be built in areas like Carthay Circle near mass transit. The aim is to relieve the state’s housing shortage and get more people out of their cars as the effects of climate change intensify.
“To put up an eight-story building in the middle of this district virtually nullifies the integrity” of the neighborhood, said Kane. “And there’s nothing the city can do to protect us because state law trumps municipal law.”
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