No major Bay Area city has had a single application for splitting or subdividing their lots three months after Senate Bill 9 came into effect.
Three months after California’s lot-splitting bill went into effect, striking fear among those who cherish the tradition of single-family zoning, homeowners in the Bay Area’s major cities aren’t rushing to build duplexes or additional houses on their properties.
Even in Redwood City, which has been a leader in housing production on the Peninsula, not a single lot-splitting application has been submitted. And In Palo Alto, which has a notorious reputation as a NIMBY city, the one application submitted soon after SB 9 kicked in was recently withdrawn. Cupertino meanwhile has “received numerous inquiries but we have not received any formal applications yet,” according to a city spokeswoman.
“Basically, planners say what we’re experiencing is that homeowners find it will be expensive and likely not financially feasible for most of them,” San Jose city spokeswoman Cheryl Wessling said. Referring to a recent city analysis that concluded SB 9’s impact would be minimal, she said “the prediction of that report appears to be holding true.”
“There’s a lot of complexity around how to make the decision to split a lot, and because it is a new model, there’s all kinds of complexity around financing and making sure the different pieces of the industry are lined up to make it work,” Reed said. Hale said only a couple hundred lots could be developed in Redwood City under SB 9 and from what she understands, homeowners are finding it’s just not financially feasible or worthwhile to try to build another unit on their properties, let alone a few.
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