California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked

Wiener’s bill, which would eliminate some zoning restrictions near major transit lines and job centers—and likely result in de facto upzoning of key parcels in major California cities and taller, more dense housing in these areas—faced the senate’s Appropriations Committee this week. In a brief and speedy hearing, the zoning plan ended up in suspense: In the language of Senate arcana, this means “a bill or set of bills, with a fiscal impact, set aside in Appropriations Committee by a majority of members present and voting” and that “[t]hese bills may be heard at a later hearing.” SB 50 survived a potentially hazardous April trial in the form of a committee hearing alongside a competing, less aggressive bills from North Bay Sen. Mike McGuire.

Source: sf.curbed.com