While supportive of increased housing and height along major thoroughfares, I'm wary we may be "streamlining" our residential neighborhoods into an unsustainable existence with 7-story buildings plopped onto streets with aged infrastructure rarely getting needed attention. And to truly reduce carbon emissions, I'd expect NO or extremely limited car parking to be allowed in new projects along major transit lines such as what could evolve at Metro's SMB yard. The proposed bills need reworking.

West Hollywood has so much to gain from SB79. As the city lobbies for the K-Line alignment through West Hollywood, the implementation of this bill will strengthen WeHo's EIFD transit funding mechanism by increasing property values near transit. As this is a state-level bill, it will also address housing supply and transit access issues in the surrounding areas. So much car traffic in the city is pass-through commuters— SB79 will make it possible for more folks in LA county to live near transit.

I support this 100%. As the city of West Hollywood seeks to accelerate the proposed K-Line North Extension through West Hollywood using the Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD), this measure will allow for denser buildings to be built, which will contribute more to the transit project's tax-base funding mechanism. It would also allow for more housing to be built quickly to address the growing housing crisis.

I have already sent my personal support to Sen Allen and Assembly Member Zbur. The city should strongly advocate for all of these bills. I expect there will be significant opposition to 677 (I live with 1,500 feet of one of the 'builder's remedy' projects), but the city is so deficient in making its RHNA goal that future development may need to be an order of magnitude larger.