California may be on the verge of eliminating
single-family zoning statewide. This is huge. And it’s a sign of how
quickly the politics around housing and land use have shifted in just
the last year.
On Wednesday, a key committee signed off on Senate Bill 50 — San
Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill to allow denser, taller housing
around transit and in communities with lots of jobs. As part of the
negotiations, Wiener agreed to merge his proposal with Senate Bill 4 by
Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) and the result includes one very big
change: Single-family houses could be converted to four-unit buildings,
by right, anywhere in the state.
That is, a property owner could subdivide or remodel a house to turn
it into four apartments. Or a developer could build a fourplex on a
vacant single-family lot. The proposal wouldn’t allow people to demolish
a house and build a new fourplex on the property, however.
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