California INSIDER
Short clip of me talking about housing policy
California's Impossible Housing Goals Are
Fueling More Unaffordable Homes.
Here's How | Amy Kalish
California INSIDER
Short clip of me talking about housing policy
California's Changing Housing Landscape: The Hidden Costs of Affordable Housing | Amy Kalish
CURRENt pushback
FOURTH ST. SAN RAFAEL
OCEAN BEACH SKYSCRAPER
OCEAN BEACH SKYSCRAPER
Appeal below
OCEAN BEACH SKYSCRAPER
OCEAN BEACH SKYSCRAPER
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MARIN CITY
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MAGNOLIA LARKSPUR
Much more Marin City info below
Community action
MARIN COUNTY COMMUNITY PLANS
Save our neighborhood san francisco
Save our neighborhood san francisco
Lawsuit filed
Save our neighborhood san francisco
Save our neighborhood san francisco
Save our neighborhood san francisco
Lucas valley for SENSIBLE growth
Save our neighborhood san francisco
Lucas valley for SENSIBLE growth
Cupertino facts
Save our neighborhood san francisco
Lucas valley for SENSIBLE growth
Elk Grove
Hamilton hauke mv
Hamilton hauke mv
Richardson TerracE, MV
Hamilton hauke mv
west shore lake tahoe
See below
west shore lake tahoe
Hamilton hauke mv
west shore lake tahoe
Friendsofthewestshore.org
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tahoe/article/tahoe-affordable-housing-lawsuit-18522880.php
MARIN CITY's SB 35: how it’s intended?
"Hands are tied"
The Rev. Rondall Leggett of First Missionary Baptist Church:
“We’re tired of you telling us that your hands are tied and there is nothing you can do. This project is abusive..."
UPDATES and NEWS
Sloat Sky Scraper, Ocean beach
YES, the law allows this. 712 new apartments, 16% (113) affordable. 599 luxury units, 15,000 square feet of retail space, bike parking, and a car basement. It's on sand, so...
Wiener, the Yimbys, and the 50-story tower - 48 hills
Renderings show 55-story condo tower proposed for S.F.’s west side (sfchronicle.com)
Marin community plans
A lawsuit has been filed against Marin County over community plans and CountyWide Plan inconsistencies.
https://www.marinij.com/2023/05/04/lawsuit-challenges-marin-countys-housing-element/
https://www.marinij.com/2023/01/14/editorial-housing-plan-rejection-shows-complexity-of-mandates/
LUCAS VALLEY BUILDERS REMEDY
https://www.marinij.com/2023/06/03/lucas-valley-housing-proposal-asserts-builders-remedy-option/
“In his application filed on May 16, Bogdasarian says he plans to build 39 residences on the parcel. The plan includes 33 market-rate, single-family homes that would cover 99,132 square feet of building area. The project also would include six junior accessory dwelling units that would be deed-restricted as affordable for very-low-income residents.
Currently, there is just one residence on the parcel as well as a carport, water irrigation tank and a barn. Dirt roads provide access from Lucas Valley Road to the home.
The site at 1501 Lucas Valley Road is among 148 sites identified in the county’s housing element as having potential for development. As with many of the other sites, the zoning on 1501 Lucas Valley Road was changed to make it easier for developers to build there.”
FOURTH STREET, SAN RAFAEL APPROVED
1515 4th st has passed. 162 units, 13 are below market rate.
https://www.marinij.com/2023/03/29/editorial-tall-apartment-complex-wrong-for-san-rafaels-west-end/
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/1515-fourth-street-apartments/
https://www.marinij.com/2023/04/26/san-rafael-resident-appeals-162-apartment-mega-project
https://www.marinij.com/2023/04/14/san-rafael-planning-board-approves-162-apartment-project/
Look how the property was originally presented for sale:
https://images1.cityfeet.com/d2/k8bRYJ53Ta9remu3G3SUGs1DBUQvKw_Wb2UqjS-UxXE/document.pdf
Hamilton, Mill valley
On city donated land, affordable housing development by EAH.
Started out at 22 units, now 45, units adjacent to heavily used parkland, fire station, police station.
Neighborhood group Hauke Park:
https://citizenca.org/mill-valley
LAWSUIT FILED: https://www.haukepark.org/shp
Dominican property, San Rafael
Excerpts From the IJ article:
“Dominican University of California in San Rafael has sold two parcels totaling about 24 acres to a developer who has plans to build 15 to 35 homes on the properties. “This is a very big deal for people who use the hiking trails up here,” said Kathy Burwell, president of the Dominican Black Canyon Neighborhood Association. “People are very upset.”
“That would be the biggest subdivision in this neighborhood in decades,” said Don Dickenson, a county planning commissioner who lives in the area. “It’s the last privately owned piece of property left.”
“…Cassidy said the company is considering building 15 to 35 homes on the larger parcel of land. Cassidy said some of the homes might need to be clustered closer together because of the grade of the hillside and a creek that runs through the parcel, according to Burwell.”
Dickenson said he was consulted on a previous plan for developing the property that envisioned just nine homes on the larger parcel. Dickenson said the site has “huge problems” as a site for residential development. “The nuns used to have a garbage dump in the middle of it that was graded over years ago,” Dickenson said. “It had car batteries and refrigerators in it that got covered up. Then for years the university allowed Marin arborists to dump wood chips there.”
Dickenson said the smaller 5-acre parcel is even more problematic. “It’s a ravine,” he said. “There is no way you could build anything on it.”
CONTACT:
Dominican Black Canyon Neighborhood Association
COMMON SENSE PARTY
The Democrats in our state, from Newsom, the senate, assembly, and Attorney General , have blindly passed these 70+ laws that will destroy California. They need a wakeup call, and to start thinking about the results of this terrible legislation. It isn't creating affordable housing, its breaking down our local governments and alienating citizens from any due process.
There is an alternative: REGISTER IN THE COMMON SENSE PARTY. Tell your Governor, Senator, and Assemblyperson why. Vote as you like, but enough of us changing party should make them take notice.
Common Sense Party | How We're Different (cacommonsense.org)
SB 423 (wiener) and AB 1287 (Alvarez)
SB 423 would make SB 35 permanent, and additionally reduce affordability requirements to 10%, inclusion, eliminate CEQA, and allow building on the coast to overrule the Coastal Commission. AB 1287 modifies state density bonus laws that apply to coastal development.
AB 1287: ADDITIONAL DENSITY BONUS: This bill would modify the State Density Bonus Law to supersede the California Coastal Act of 1976. This bill would also allow up to an additional 50% density bonus for projects that (1) maximize the very low income, low income, or moderate-income units permitted under the current State Density Bonus Law and (2) provide up to 15% additional moderate-income units. Projects that utilize this additional moderate-income bonus would also receive up to six incentives or concessions.”
OUR neighborhood voices initiative
OurNeighborhoodvoices.com is in process of gathering signatures needed to get an initiative on the 2024 ballot. They need funding and volunteers.
More info and registration at that link.
Meetings Every Wednesday at 6 p.m. for Online Volunteer Training Sessions:
RICHARDSON TERRACE MV
Magnolia village, larkspur
20 units: 16 market rate, 4 affordable
Elk Grove
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article275023421.html?ac_cid=DM799712&ac_bid=-1352989869
City fights back against Bonta’s Strike Force
UPDATES and NEWS
lucas valley builders remedy
YES, the law allows this. 712 new apartments, 16% (113) affordable. 599 luxury units, 15,000 square feet of retail space, bike parking, and a car basement. It's on sand, so...
Wiener, the Yimbys, and the 50-story tower - 48 hills
Renderings show 55-story condo tower proposed for S.F.’s west side (sfchronicle.com)
strawberry builders remedy
A lawsuit has been filed against Marin County over community plans and CountyWide Plan inconsistencies.
https://www.marinij.com/2023/05/04/lawsuit-challenges-marin-countys-housing-element/
https://www.marinij.com/2023/01/14/editorial-housing-plan-rejection-shows-complexity-of-mandates/
builders remedy fairfax
https://www.marinij.com/2023/06/03/lucas-valley-housing-proposal-asserts-builders-remedy-option/
“In his application filed on May 16, Bogdasarian says he plans to build 39 residences on the parcel. The plan includes 33 market-rate, single-family homes that would cover 99,132 square feet of building area. The project also would include six junior accessory dwelling units that would be deed-restricted as affordable for very-low-income residents.
Currently, there is just one residence on the parcel as well as a carport, water irrigation tank and a barn. Dirt roads provide access from Lucas Valley Road to the home.
The site at 1501 Lucas Valley Road is among 148 sites identified in the county’s housing element as having potential for development. As with many of the other sites, the zoning on 1501 Lucas Valley Road was changed to make it easier for developers to build there.”
buiders remedy los altos hills
1515 4th st has passed. 162 units, 13 are below market rate.
https://www.marinij.com/2023/03/29/editorial-tall-apartment-complex-wrong-for-san-rafaels-west-end/
https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/1515-fourth-street-apartments/
https://www.marinij.com/2023/04/26/san-rafael-resident-appeals-162-apartment-mega-project
https://www.marinij.com/2023/04/14/san-rafael-planning-board-approves-162-apartment-project/
Look how the property was originally presented for sale:
https://images1.cityfeet.com/d2/k8bRYJ53Ta9remu3G3SUGs1DBUQvKw_Wb2UqjS-UxXE/document.pdf
builders remedy lucas valley rd
On city donated land, affordable housing development by EAH.
Started out at 22 units, now 45, units adjacent to heavily used parkland, fire station, police station.
Neighborhood group Hauke Park:
https://citizenca.org/mill-valley
LAWSUIT FILED: https://www.haukepark.org/shp
new MILl valley evacuation study
2023 STUDY
Mill Valley Evacuation Study (arxiv.org)
"Because of Mill Valley’s susceptibility to wildfire, city authorities developed a preliminary evacuation plan which includes changes to the road network designed to help speed up the evacuation..."Evacuation involves thousands of vehicles, many of which need to navigate narrow windy roads down to a small number of arterials which lead to Highway 101. "
"In the following we consider the incorporated and unincorporated parts of Mill Valley west of Highway 101. Mill Valley includes some areas east of 101 but those areas are much closer to the highway and are not as susceptible to fire. The area we consider is shown... has about 11,400 households and each household has on average 2 vehicles. We consider the case where all vehicles start at residences, as would happen in the middle of the night. We assume every household will evacuate in one or more vehicles. We consider scenarios where the average number of evacuating vehicles per household is between 1 and 2. The main questions concerning a citywide evacuation (within the context of the simulation we are doing) are: How quickly can somewhere between 11 and 23 thousand vehicles distributed all over the city get onto Highway 101? What can be done to make the evacuation more efficient? "
Unfortunately, the answers are basically: Use contra flow (all lanes moving in one direction) and turn off stoplights to keep flow moving. Areas in higher reaches and in unincorporated MV can still take hours to evacuate, and this is based on the current number of residences, which does not include the mandated increase of 15-30%.
OLDER GOOGLE SIMULATION ONLY USED CITY OF MILL VALLEY:
Google studies Mill Valley fire evacuation routes (marinij.com)
Excerpt:
"The Google report was presented at the City Council meeting on March 15 (2021). Residents called and wrote into the meeting to point out that there is another way out of the city, through Edgewood, Molino and Montford avenues.
Resident Ronald Schafer wrote that evacuees in Homestead Valley could create a bottleneck on the Edgewood system.
“Any delay due to blockage will endanger the evacuees remaining on the upside of the hill and is of major concern to all of us who cannot freely drive out,” he said.
Fire officials said if roads become blocked then residents should get to the nearest “community refuge area.”
Bayfront Park could hold up to 1,000 vehicles. Tamalpais High School sports fields could hold another 1,500 vehicles.
“We identified certain areas that were less combustible and that the community could exit to should the need arise under under last-resort type conditions,” said Deputy Chief Tom Welch of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District.
The largest refuge area is the Mill Valley Golf Course. "
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Note: All at risk areas of California have taken steps to manage evacuations, and can use volunteer assistance.
MVFD, Southern Marin Fire Department, Southern Marin Neighborhood Response Group (NRG), FireWise Communities, and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) have been constant in their efforts to inform the community and train volunteers how to assist first responders in emergency situations. Measure C funds have helped these efforts and have enabled large scale clearing. There is still no sugar-coating the scale of disaster that could occur here if any blockage occurs, or in any event, if the winds blow embers that spread, as in recent catastrophic fires. Volunteer information is here:
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) | Mill Valley, CA (millvalleylibrary.org)
Home | Southern Marin Neighborhood Response Group | California (southernmarinnrg.org)
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