Huge new residential buildings will block sunlight from nearby solar panels, which legislators apparently didn’t realize.
They eliminate most single-family “R-1” zoning to allow more housing and permit more floors in any new apartment building or condominium structure if it contains an acceptable percentage of “affordable” or low-income units. One measure also allows more living units by mandating fewer or no parking spaces in buildings near mass transit stops on the flawed presumption that most people living there won’t ever want to own a vehicle.
Measures like the density bonus given by one California law to developers allow them to add floors to their new buildings if they put more affordable units than absolutely required into those structures. That same factor affects the “builders remedy” that allows developers almost a completely free hand on new projects within cities that are late getting state approval for their housing plans.
If and when that happens on a large scale, not only will residents of nearby R-1 neighborhoods lose privacy, as their once-secluded backyards become visible to new neighbors living a few floors up, but shadows from large new buildings will block sunlight to those existing homes for hours every day. So much for the ability to generate much solar energy, still the key to renewable power even in an era that includes wind energy, geothermal, hydroelectric power and more.
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