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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS (SCAG)

It worked! SCAG supported returning land-use planning and zoning to local governments! 

This was the letter and thank you for sending it!

​Dear members of SCAG,

I'm writing to urge you to follow the recommendation to SUPPORT the Community Planning Voter Initiative, (Agenda Item 2) on Thursday, January 6.

*Local communities are much better qualified than Sacramento to decide on which land use and zoning policies to adopt in order to meet long-term housing goals. 

*Each city and area in our vast state has different issues and terrain. What may work for one area may not work for another. 

*Sacramento cannot outperform local government when it comes to best practices for land-use planning and zoning policies in our cities and counties across the state. 

*Allowing developers to take advantage of increased density in single-family communities without any affordability requirements, environmental review, or enforceable owner-occupancy requirements will result in further displacement and gentrification in sensitive communities, exacerbate our affordable housing crisis and put more stress on local infrastructure without additional fees to offset those impacts.

*Communities of color and working class neighborhoods are already besieged by investors and institutions seeking more single family homes to buy, making the dream of homeownership even more difficult to attain for more Californians. SCAG’s support for the ONV Initiative is a strong statement against “trickle-down” housing policies that accelerate the transformation of homeowners into renters and destabilize existing communities.

*Accelerating affordable housing production requires collaboration between all levels of government, the private sector, and community members – each of these groups has an important role to play. Supporting the ONV Initiative will stop Sacramento from manipulating local land use policy, giving ineffective incentives to developers and blaming local governments for slow housing production without delivering the funding or effective policies required to get the affordable housing we need.

*A basic tenet of American democracy is our right to speak out about public policy measures that directly impact our citizens and communities, but Sacramento has instead prioritized the needs of developers to receive outsized benefits and incentives to build more market-rate housing. That is fundamentally undemocratic, and the idea that we all have a right to speak out and be heard about what is happening in our own communities is the heart and soul of the ONV Initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name Last Name
Address

We are part of United Neighbors, a coalition of
​neighborhoods fighting SB9 and SB10 together. 

Read more about SB9 and SB10 here on the United Neighbors website.

Neighborhood Coalitions

Culver City Neighbors United is part of a larger coalition of neighbors on the Westside who know that AB 9 and AB 10 will hurt our communities.
Our Assembly 54 (AD54) coalition is growing: ​

• A New Life 4U EDC
• Baldwin Hills Estates HOA
• Baldwin Hills Village Gardens Homes Association
• Black Pact
• Century Glen HOA
• Century Property Owners Association
• Cherrywood/Leimert Park Block Club
• The Coalition of Homeowner Associations – Council District 5
• Comstock Hills HOA
• Crenshaw Manor Community Association
• Culver City Neighbors United
• Culver Crest Neighborhood Association
• Grayburn Avenue Block Club-Western Quadrant of North Leimert Park
• Hepburn Avenue Homeowners Association
• Holmby-Westwood Property Owners Association​
• Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment (HOPE)

• Ladera Heights Civic Association
• Livable California / Crenshaw Manor
• Los Angeles Urban League
• Mar Vista Community Council 
• Park Mesa Heights Community Council
• Sustainable Housing Justice
• Sutro Avenue Block Club/Southeast Leimert Park
• United Homeowners’ Association 
• View Heights Block Club
• West Adams Avenues Neighborhood Association
• Westside Village HOA
• Westwood Community Council
• Westwood Homeowners Association
• Westwood Hills Property Owners Association
• Westwood Neighborhood Council
• Westwood South of Santa Monica Homeowner’s Association 

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