To solve this problem, the Coastal Commission/Act can and have created exemptions from the Coastal Act. For example, are you so rich you have a coastal mansion and would like to add a pool? Exempt! Want to enlarge your house? Also exempt!

San Francisco!

Our coalition’s push to expand the citywide rezoning with strong city planning principles — ex. apartments in wealthy neighborhoods near transit, parks, and college campuses — has sent almost 9,500 letters! 😱

Help us get to 10k today: actionnetwork.org/letters/expand…

Ok so. Let’s break this announcement down so EVERYONE understands the context, and how big a deal this is:

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Have never been so excited for a politician to say “Let’s redo the math” 😍

Background here: sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

My North Star on housing has always been grounded in being ambitious, data-driven, and embracing change. These are my San Francisco values. Let’s redo the math and re-up our commitment to housing.

But what’s most important is that San Francisco can, and should, adopt a rezoning plan that results in far more housing than the current draft. This is the only way to meet our CA state requirements, and this is what we committed to do when we passed the Housing Element.

Thank you Mayor Breed! As our YIMBY leads called out this week, the current rezoning plan is not good enough and will only build 1/4th the housing we need sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

OPINION: 'Planners failed to analyze the feasibility of the city's housing element. So, we used the city's tools and did it for them. The results weren't pretty,' writes Salim Damerdji and David Broockman, volunteer leads with San Francisco YIMBY. trib.al/IuNND3e

'That’s why Mayor London Breed’s announcement Wednesday that she is directing the Planning Department to be more ambitious with its plans to add those promised 36,000 homes — could not have come at a better time.'

Let's keep pushing!
actionnetwork.org/letters/expand…

Apologies in advance to anyone for whom rezonesf.org crashes. It crashes when I push a bug fix, so it's crashed twice this morning from bug fixes :(

If you find a bug please dm me so I can fix it

SF must quadruple its upzoning to meet its legal obligations to the state

That's according to the city's own data-driven model

See for yourself: rezonesf.org

sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Me & salim in San Francisco Chronicle:
SF promised state its rezoning plan would add 36k homes & they'd prove that with data.
They didn't.
We used their tools & found it only adds 8k.😳
Plan must be 4x bigger!
Make your own map at rezonesf.org.
sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

A year ago, San Francisco adopted a great housing element.

But implementation has been a slog. Why? B/c the city--and the public--didn't have salim's new 'rezoner app.'

Try it here: rezonesf.shinyapps.io/rezoner/.

Read about it here:
sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

1/12 🧵

For 40 years, the Los Angeles mandated that every new high-rise install a helicopter pad on the roof on the basis of fire safety. The theory? A helicopter might land on a burning building and evacuate occupants.

City Hall will write R11 and R12 zones into the zoning code in a bid to call the bluff of the 12 FAR cap backers, who say they'd support pulling the cap if NYC would show what that development would look like.

Would allow, after a ULURP, FARs of 15 and 18 with MIH.

I’m a bi, zillennial, urbanist, and former tenant organizer who believes yes in my backyard, & I’m running for Palo Alto City Council. Can you donate $50 today to help create a Palo Alto that is sustainable, affordable, and inclusive?
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