{"id":485,"date":"2019-04-16T14:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.growthesandiegoway.com\/blog\/entries\/?p=485"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:02:24","slug":"american-planning-association-california-chapter-opposes-sb50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growthesandiegoway.com\/blog\/entries\/2019\/04\/16\/american-planning-association-california-chapter-opposes-sb50\/","title":{"rendered":"American Planning Association, California Chapter Opposes SB50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

East Village, City of San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a letter sent out to members of their California Chapter, the American Planning Association lays out why, in its current form, the APA has \u201csubstantive, not technical or procedural\u201d concerns with the legislation. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter summarizes the discussion from a conference call with members on April 9th to discuss SB50 and incorporates some of the findings from a previous letter to Senator Weiner (SB50 \u2013 Notice of Oppose unless Amended<\/a>) on March 25th. In essence, while the APA supports the basic tenets of the legislation as it is aligned with their legislative platform\u2014to increase density in infill areas linked to transit\u2014they have significant concerns with the implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lack of specificity and local granularity:<\/strong> \u201cIt is not clear where SB50 would apply and we support calibrating its effects for different conditions throughout the state.\u201d<\/em> The definition of job-rich<\/a>, in particular is what the APA is most concerned about as it doesn\u2019t define what it means in the language of the legislation and basically punts it to HCD (Housing and Community Development) and the OPR (the Governor\u2019s Office of Planning and Research). The jobs-rich areas are intended to be areas of high opportunity but low housing density near jobs but are not as well defined as transit-rich areas (1\/2 or 1\/4 from transit stops).
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Limited Land Value Recapture:<\/strong> In recognizing that up-zoning confers additional value to the landowners whose land is up-zoned, they feel that the affordability component is not commensurate with the value created for developers. e.g. if we\u2019re going to grant all this value to developers and speculators, the public should obtain a greater benefit. And in Weiner\u2019s letter, they state the added importance of requiring onsite affordable versus simply allowing developers to pay an in-lieu fee as the legislation proposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limiting community input into development process: <\/strong> \u201cas planners, we feel that it is important that local communities have the opportunity to determine how to best meet those standards based on their expertise and knowledge of local context, and any standards must both protect against displacement and promote equity for disadvantaged communities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost no local standards will be applicable:<\/strong> After density bonuses, waivers and concessions are applied to projects per the legislation, there will effectively be no local standards that will apply to the projects, according to the APA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makes good local planning toothless:<\/strong> LA\u2019s Transit-Oriented Communities Program, which has been extremely successful in creating thousands of units near transit while promoting affordability and limiting gentrification would be rendered ineffective by SB50. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does this mean they won\u2019t support the bill ever? No. If Senator Weiner makes some significant changes to the bill, they might consider it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Letter to Membership:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Letter to Senator Weiner<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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