Upzone the coastal elites

My home should arguably be rebuilt as apartments given a large lot walkable to Bart. So it is hard to find motivation to maintain and/or renovate it.

if it takes a rich family upset about a city blocking their SFH use to get SCOTUS interested in overturning Euclid, I'll take it in a heartbeat.

I find it very hard to justify bans on single family use on any grounds, excepts those that could be repurposed to block density and equally problematic from a constitutional perspective.

How can we ban SFHs if Euclid is wrong?

I mean, it would appear perfectly legal for this family to install very minimal kitchens and some doors, and still effectively use the space as a SFH, just with a bad layout. there's no apparent requirement to actually rent or sell out the other "units."

so why even force technical compliance?

a symptom of a severe housing shortage at least.

if zoning limits and fees blocking non-nuisance dense residential uses are a takings and Euclid should be overturned, then this use should also be legal.

the city has every right to tax a large single family home for the services it consumes, but precluding it from the owner's preferred and non-detrimental use has no basis in police powers (at least one I'd agree was legitimate).

Pacific Law should come in and sue that the preclusion of use as a single family home is a takings.

Tenants advocates way too gleeful about the chance to kick a family out of their home.

Feel like my 2013 Leaf would be a fun a scrap battery for a diy project. But doesn't seem diy easy ...

And wow is it expensive to add a battery.

(Like, the Nazi truck arguably is worth more as battery scrap, on a per kWh basis compared to home batteries.)

I'd be okay with that. Long as condos do the same. A broken out maintenance item estimate.

100%. Entirely about the former for maintenance issues, not HOA in the neighborhood busybody sense, or even the community amenities sense.

I think new buyers have a poor understanding of actual costs over the long run, and it leads to a false assumption that condo HOAs are too high and that they shouldn't support condos.

That and I think hatred on condo HOA fees is overblown given the same dynamic exists, but hidden, in SFHs.

And just possibly, there'd be more support for dense infill if this was advertised in SFH listings.

You could not better describe why I think single family home listings should include an estimated HOA fee.

People underestimate the long term costs of SFH maintenance.

Yeah, my point was the maintenance costs aspect of HOAs are unavoidable, so how it's structured basically doesn't matter.

*should

Hot take: single family home sales would include an estimated HOA fee for maintenance needs.

There's so much hate on HOA fees and SFHs have them too, they're just hidden. Roofs everywhere have a lifespan.

Special taxes are perhaps the best local tool to mitigate the regressive nature of prop. 13.

They hate that.

Get the feeling the thing they're pissed at is people using something other than a car to get around, and commuting on their "recreational" paths. What do you mean I can't amble unpredictably around this multiuse path?

a woman is standing in a kitchen with her hands on her hips and says `` i wonder '' . ALT: a woman is standing in a kitchen with her hands on her hips and says `` i wonder '' .

Why is the Assembly Member standing in the literal gutter?

Also, in that same press conference, Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan said, "When you and I drive on the highway, we abide by the speed limit." I can only conclude she has never at any time in her life been on a California freeway either as a passenger or as a driver.

I suspect the biggest speeders on Iron Horse are riders on acoustic road bikes.

It's not hard to get past 15 mph.

She just wants to keep pedestrians safe....

Takes video from a car sewer with no sidewalks, says nothing about it.

Iron Horse speed limit is also below the speed allowed by legal ebikes. Speeding won't go away with licensing.

Status quo: illegal electric motorcycles and modded e-bikes speed

Bauer Kahan's future: illegal electric motorcycles and modded e-bikes speed, and all legal e-bikes are more expensive and less popular.

I'm in your district and find this bill offensive.

Drivers are the big problem. And to the extent electrified mobility is a problem, it's not class 2 and 3 e-bikes, it's illegal electric motorcycles.

Stop hurting legal e-bikes!

Of the 12 Walnut Creek fatalities, 8 occurred on just one road: Ygnacio Valley.

Advocates who have been fighting for solutions to this crisis for many years can not take your legislation seriously when there is no action on the PRIMARY traffic safety issues in your district, all involving CARS.

“Since 2023, there have been nearly twice as many e-bike fatalities as regular bike fatalities”

This is exceptionally inaccurate. What data are you referencing!?

FARS data from the NHTSA indicates that e-devices accounted for 7% of fatalities in 2022-2023. 47% were pedal bikes & 40% unknown.

Literally.