Reminder: The budget trailer bill AB 130 also subjects the California Coastal Commission's review of housing project permit applications to the same timelines that apply to local jurisdictions under the Permit Streamlining Act.

“What’s changed is that the key point of leverage outside groups have wielded, for good and for ill, over housing construction in California communities is gone.”

It’s a real bummer that the Los Angeles Times is so understaffed they can’t properly report on how Measure ULA funds are being spent--or not spent. Instead, they run quotes like this, straight from a press release:

I will say this, confidently: the number will be bigger & better if the Leg also passes AB 1294 (standardized development application form) and SB 79 (height & density near fixed transit).🤞 leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavC… leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…

PNW urbanists are crushing it - in part because The Groups are much worse in CA. But why? Many reasons, but I suspect the influx of post-materialist left-pastoralists into SF and Santa Monica in the 1960s created a New Left politics that endures through culture and institutions

“Fairfax is walking into a buzzsaw — they are going to waste a lot of money and they are going to lose,” Trauss said. “They are having an absolute and complete freakout over one project that is not that big a deal.”

Is this the most San Francisco skateboarding photo of all time?

It occurs to me that Zoomers have no cultural memory of “urban exploration” because almost all of the once-abandoned buildings in big city downtowns are now craft breweries and loft apartments.