San Fernando Valley Residents Push Back on SB 79, Urging Newsom to Veto It

Letters to the Editor: Yes, Los Angeles needs more housing, but SB 79 ‘is not a thoughtful solution’

'We need more thoughtful solutions to sensitively increase density together with adding the necessary infrastructure to support it — not simply peanut-buttering high-rises virtually throughout the city,' writes an L.A Times reader.

San Fernando Valley residents push back on SB 79, urging Newsom to veto it

A growing number of San Fernando Valley residents and neighborhood groups are rallying against SB 79, a state bill that would allow denser housing near public transit stops — a move they said could upend decades of neighborhood planning and overwhelm local infrastructure. For months, some San Fernando Valley residents have mounted a forceful campaign against SB 79 — a controversial state bill that would override local zoning and allow buildings …

CA: Valley residents push back on bill allowing large buildings near transit, urging Newsom to veto it

A growing number of San Fernando Valley residents and neighborhood groups are rallying against SB 79, a state bill that would allow denser housing near public transit stops.

The bizarre incompetence of Wiener's SB 79

State Sen. Scott Wiener’s latest upzoning bill, Senate Bill 79, is bizarrely incompetent. The bill upzones huge areas around BART, Muni and other rail transit stops in a way that is impractical. In the coming decades, there will not be enough population growth to come close to filling these new transit-oriented development zones. The bill is a good example of how we face the confluence of powerful landowners, sympathetic pro-growth newspapers pu…