Jordan Grimes
@cafedujord
Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎 President: Peninsula Young Democrats Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone Work: Greenbelt Alliance Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
YIMBYs, a new moment of triumph is upon us! Atherton, the Silicon Valley enclave that prohibits all but single-family homes, one of the most exclusionary towns in the country, has just received its first multifamily housing project (ever!) under @scottwiener.bsky.social’s SB79!
Good news is that the NIMBYs are reacting extremely normally to this development
It brings me absolute joy to share that the City of San Mateo has received our first SB79 project, and it's a beaut! - 20 units - 5 stories - Replacing a single family home - 4,400 sq ft lot - 198 units/acre - No parking included We absolutely love to see it!
Alright, staff is presenting now. Tl;dr: project opponents managed to get all the signatures they needed in just over a month. Bleak.
Council chambers are pretty full, unsurprisingly, though I think some people are here for a different item.
Imagine calling yourself a leftist and claiming new multifamily housing will cause gentrification in Palo fucking Alto
Great news today for people who want California cities to be more affordable!
Possibly the first SB79 project in existence is a proposal to turn an old motel on .38 acres of land near the California Avenue Caltrain Station in Palo Alto into a 76 apartments. 200 units per acre, on a parcel where housing was not previously allowed. We absolutely love to see it!
This might be the funniest thing to happen since the time he got COVID
Seems like we should maybe build more housing in San Francisco and LA, idk
Last year the California legislature passed Senate Bill 79, which legalized multifamily housing within a half mile of major public transit stops across California. This legislation was nearly a decade in the making. As of today, is officially active! Let the building begin!
Tragically, this tweet that I wrote 6 (!) years ago is even more true today than it was then
This is a fantastic example of everything wrong with the "progressive" wing of the San Francisco political establishment. You cannot claim to care about the affordability crisis while espousing pro-car, anti-upzoning policy positions and messaging. Sorry!
If I were running for office as a Democrat and Christopher Rufo publicly called me "thoughtful and reasonable" I would immediately drop out and rethink every position I had ever taken
In the world of progressive politics, be a Mamdani (the housing crisis is the result of regulatory barriers on homebuilding), not a Jayapal (developers bad!)
Mamdani did a really good reel about deed theft the other day, and while many of the comments were totally normal, others were, uh, extremely not
Evening, folks! It’s taken 4 years and more than a dozen meetings to get here, but 555 Kelly, the 40 unit affordable housing project for senior farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, should finally move forward tonight. 🧵
The CBIA (sprawl builders) and realtors in California saying that there's no future for them in California if Tom Steyer gets elected is precisely why I'll be voting for him
Evening, folks! Groundhog Day continues, and I am once again in Half Moon Bay for a City Council discussion of 555 Kelly, a 40 unit 100% affordable housing project for senior farmworkers. Maybe tonight will be the meeting where they finally move forward! 🙃🤞🏻