Santa Monica NIMBYs Made a Hilarious Screwup, and Now They Have to Build More Housing

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Santa Monica NIMBYs Made a Hilarious Screwup, and Now They Have to Build More Housing
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The lovely seaside city accidentally abolished its own zoning code for eight months. Oops.

, and the city cannot say no except if the project would “have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety,” according to a city memo obtained by the Santa Monica Daily Press. “We’re already, to put it lightly, 12 projects in the hole,” said Gleam Davis, another council member. “[The state] has said they’re going forward no matter what we do tonight, because they beat the clock.

To put that in plain English, it helps to look at exactly what “planning for housing” looks like. Last year, the planner Nolan Gray, now the research director at the advocacy group California YIMBY, that the San Diego-area city of Coronado had “selected” to accommodate future affordable housing. Those included: two supermarkets, the post office, the fire department, and a luxury hotel. Needless to say, those are not plausible locations for low-income apartments.Last year, however, as part of a broader effort to enforce state housing laws, California bulked up HCD’s accountability team. In August, the statean investigation into San Francisco’s housing-approval process.

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