Let's close out the year with a quick look back at my favorite post of the year. I was thinking it would be Planning for a Rollicking Rollins Rd. We heard a lot this year about how proud the city council is of the "new neighborhood" going up in the East-East side--not to be confused with the regular East side that is demarcated by the railroad tracks and the North Park apartments. The East-East side is also demarcated by the tracks but is north of Broadway and is newly residential. The Rollicking post was a fantasy of mine that imagined all the things that need to be done for it to really be a "new neighborhood" actually had been done. But it can't be my favorite for 2022 since it is dated December 26, 2021. Let's call it my defered favorite of '21. Check it out.
That leaves State Auditor: Housing "requirement" numbers way off from May 6th as my 2022 favorite. It is the post that I find myself bringing up in conversations with all sorts of people. The three paragraphs I excerpted in the post are damning of the whole process of assigning crazy high numbers of you-must-build-units from the state. Tom Elias as the Daily Post is on a similar page as me. His column on Wednesday noted that
Several cities have begun to fight parts of today's state domination of land use. Four Los Angeles County cities -- Redondo Beach, Torrance, Carson and Whittier -- are seeking a court order negating the 2021 Senate Bill 9, which allows single family homes to be replaced by as many as six units, with cities unable to nix any such projects....No one can predict whether or not courts will find the state Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom have vastly overreached in their power grab, which is all for the sake of increased density and based on unfounded predictions by bureaucrats who answer to no one.
Bingo. Wouldn't it be nice if those four cities got some help? And in other news, California led the nation in net domestic out migration from July 2021 to July 2022 at -343,230. That's about like all of Stockton getting up and moving out of state. New York came in second but is the highest per capita. Either way, the State Auditor is onto something and should get more airtime in 2023. Happy New Year.
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