Hey, it's HN's zbrozek in the article. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zbrozek
Bay Area homeowner is the face of California’s latest housing drama
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#12What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
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#13The next target should be CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act. NIMBYs can endlessly delay new construction by requesting CEQA assessments. I am hugely pro-environment, mind you, but an environmental assessment for a new development should be relatively fast and easy to complete, and it shouldn't prevent new builds wholesale except in the direst cases.
Especially infill. There are no endangered animals living in SOMA.
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#15What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
You mean other than practical, financial, and agricultural obstacles?
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#16Is there anywhere to see the list of projects that are being insta-approved as they come in? Also, does anyone know what legal recourse there is to block projects that are submitted under the current no-zoning state?
An earlier Chronicle article anticipates some ways projects will be blocked. It sounds like this isn't the unambiguous green light that some articles suggest. > Environmental review is one such way. Normally, cities perform one environmental review for a citywide or neighborhood-wide zoning plan. So long as project applications comply with those plans, they can piggyback on the parent environmental report. But since…
I'll throw out I also know a guy who is a developer, they have had enough bad issues working in Oregon alone that they have 0 intention of ever touching anything in CA with a 10ft pole, simply because it isn't worth it to deal with the hassle and the headaches.
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#17What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
Laws pertaining to pollution or noise? Zoning laws are redundant at best.
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#18What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
Battery chicken farms are known to cause cancer in the State of California?
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#20Zoning laws broadly are probably still in effect, right? I doubt you could build something industrial in residential zones. It's just the bad parts of zoning that are disabled, if I understood the article correctly. Excellent development in any case. Hope a lot of good dense housing gets built.
Builder's remedy forbids relevant jurisdictions from rejecting residential projects that do not comply with their existing zoning codes.
A bulletin from the Association of Bay Area Governments alludes to being able to use environmental laws to block the projects instead. https://abag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022-10/Bu...