Beautiful development proposed in Lafayette, CA:
- 7 stories
- 90 homes on 1.2 acres
- first new rental housing in town in 20+ years 😍
Only possible bc city’s housing element forced it to rezone. Policy change matters!
Dr. Jeremy Levine, PhD of city council meetings
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Dr. Jeremy Levine, PhD of city council meetings
@JeremyELevine
Supporting houses and the people who live in them with @hlc_sanmateo, @inclusive_laf, and @cocoyoungdems 🏘🏢🌆
Not a real PhD but takes just as good
- Packed room to discuss plans to build affordable housing on city-owned parking lots in downtown Menlo Park! Over/under that public comment ends by 10pm? I’ll thread with some of my favorite comments here
- Replying to @AlecStappDespite our own inefficiencies (stupid zoning, misdirected enviro laws, stifling license reps, and on and on), America remains the greatest country in part because our competitors do even worse things
- It has been extremely confusing to watch college lefties link hands with NIMBY reactionaries to push one of the Bay Area’s youngest, most progressive elected officials out of office forever, all because he tried to allow homes for students and unhousedI am so proud of all we have achieved together. Serving this community has been the greatest honor of my life. It’s a new year, and it’s time for a new chapter to begin. Thank you for everything. ❤️ berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opi…
- CA Democrats face a national crisis and the leaders of our biggest city seem just fine fading into obscurity: @KarenBassLA kneecapping ED 1, LA City Council maintaining apartment bans in 74% of the city The state legislature needs to step in. No more local control for LA
- I love 100% affordable housing, but people who think new development must ALL be 100% affordable inadvertently defend exclusionary housing policies that abjectly fail to help communities in real need I’m pro-housing so I support all types of housing in our citieswhy are people who say they are “pro-housing” against 100% affordable housing? why do they get so mad when people advocate for 100% affordable housing on new developments?
- I want historic districts to actually mean something, not be a tool for exclusion available to anyone who can afford it My first solo article in the SF Chron, published yesterday!
- Replying to @EricaJSandbergI actually think people and buildings and businesses and amazing public places make a city a city. Cars are the mode of transportation that takes the most space away from those things
- Replying to @salimfurthOakland has lost at least three of these teams in last few years 😢
- Los Angeles has more than FIFTY THOUSAND properties designated as historic resources! Many in the city’s highest demand areas And this isn’t just an LA or CA problem. I’m working on a piece about how historic preservation is consuming our country’s future
- Portola Valley—median home value $4 million—may have to disincorporate in part bc the town spent more than $1 million trying to find loopholes out of doing its housing element well
- Wealthy neighborhoods statewide are catching on: For $20-50k, they can hire a consultant and the state Historical Resources Commission will approve their application, making new homes much harder to build. Pay-to-play history We need action by @GavinNewsom and the legislature
- Replying to @michaelgeller and @Dave_Eby“We shall make the people of British Columbia suffer by providing massive amounts of beautiful transit-oriented housing they can live in” is a strange retribution strategy
- Replying to @JeremyELevineWoman says “Menlo park’s downtown is heart of the city … what happens when you stab someone in the heart?” Menlo Park’s downtown business vacancy rate is 25%, pretty sure the heart is already on life support. Affordable housing just might revive it
