What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
What size batteries do chicken use? D?
Bay Area homeowner is the face of California’s latest housing drama
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#22What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
Why do you care if they do? Now you should have the right to demand that the chicken farm controls the smell, and otherwise isn't polluting, but stopping chicken farms completely is the wrong solution. The above includes assurance that fire and accidents will not spread.
Of course land in the bay is valuable enough that nobody will do what you suggest. However that is economics, it shouldn't be law.
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#23What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
Because the Builder's Remedy applies only to permitting for residential projects and homeless shelters.
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#26Is 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?
There is some talk that builders remedy may be exempt from CEQA because of some clauses in its law. It will surely face some CEQA suits so remains to be seen how the courts will handle.
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#27The 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.
Some millimeter sized shrimp completely altered expansion plans for an entire UC campus.
https://www.sfgate.com/green/article/MERCED-UC-expansion-pla...
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#28What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
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#29Zoning 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.
There was a great article about this a couple weeks back: https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/ca-cities-to-lose-all-zo... Basically, until these cities get a housing plan validated with the state, who is apparently sick of their crap like zoning in the middle of an active mall that will not be torn down, builder’s remedy is in place.
Congrats to https://cayimby.org/ and https://yimbyaction.org/ for all their work on this!
Great organizations to get involved with if you care about other people being able to afford a place to live.
Re: Bay Area homeowner is the face of California’s latest housing drama
#30What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
Why do you care if they do? Now you should have the right to demand that the chicken farm controls the smell, and otherwise isn't polluting, but stopping chicken farms completely is the wrong solution. The above includes assurance that fire and accidents will not spread. Of course land in the bay is valuable enough that nobody will do what you suggest. However that is economics, it shouldn't be law.
I can imagine there's at least a couple of landlords who would place a premium on shortening their supply chains in such a way.
Where I live, a lot of zoning laws are really ordinances, and the enforcement of different aspects of sanitation is split between the zoning ordinance and other ordinances. I wonder how the new anti-zoning law law handles that.