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Megan Palmer's avatar

How do we get these moving across the country?! Are you aware of any other states considering?

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Sharlyn Selkirk's avatar

Oregon has something similar - was passed last year!

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Savannah Kruger's avatar

I fucking love this.

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Phil Levin's avatar

🤘🤘🤘

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Renee Garcia's avatar

Wow, this is cool! Hopefully this concept spreads nationwide, lots of people talking about similar arrangements in Oregon.

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Jay Cumberland's avatar

Re the SB 684 fine print: while the authors did not mean for SB 684 to apply to single-family residential HOUSEkeeping zones, they actually wrote that it does not apply to single-family residential HORSEkeeping zones. So feel free to use SB 684 on parcels zoned single family!

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Dave Snyder's avatar

There's a neighborhood in north Oakland, near or part of Paradise Park, roughly between 61st and Alcatraz and Market and San Pablo where the lots are extra large and zoned for 5 homes. Get two adjacent lots and that's 10 homes and lots of space! I and a few friends almost did this a few years ago but we got outbid by somebody with cash.

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Mike McCollum's avatar

The devil is in the details. LA has a small lot subdivision ordinance that they have effectively killed by taking over a year to approve the lot subdivision (which means a bank won’t lend on it for that time) and then larding up the permitting and other fees associated with each lot. It is good that this new ordinance at least requires comments back within 60 days.

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Solemna's avatar

This is great!

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Joyce Ford's avatar

What could possibly go wrong?

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Jerome Powell's avatar

…With selling a bit of your land to a new neighbor to live on? I mean, I could come up with some things that could go wrong but it seems like an awfully normal and unthreatening behavior to me, honestly.

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mango's avatar

uhhh, how about just making normal homes affordable again?

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John L.'s avatar

How exactly do you think this happens?

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Kaiser Basileus's avatar

It looks like co-housing but it's actually just zoning.

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