Sacramento Out to Kill Single Family Neighborhoods - CA Senate Bill 9 Analysis of Statewide Rezoning of Single-Family Neighborhoods and Urban Parcel Splits

South San Francisco, CA March 16, 2021

Preface

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This analysis of SB9 is presented by Dan Carrigg, who is the Senior Policy Advisor with the Renne Public Policy Group, and is retired Deputy Executive and Legislative Director with the League of California Cities.

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Governor Newsom’s Latest Executive Overreach – a “Housing Accountability Unit”

Governor Newsom recently included a new Housing Accountability Unit (HAU) in his proposed budget. Livable California opposes this as major executive over-reach threatening the balance of power between the executive branch, the legislative branch, and local governments.

The governor said: ““Let me just make this clear to all my friends,” Newsom said, “this is to monitor city council meetings. This is to monitor board of supervisors meetings, planning commission meetings. We’re not going to wait for an article to be written to be proactive in terms of holding local government accountable to increasing housing production.”

Livable California strongly supports local government and the close participation of communities at that level. We believe that having an state executive “policeman” in our local meetings will have a chilling effect on communities’ dialogue with their local elected officials.

Below is our letter of opposition: