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I appreciate the good intentions of Senators Wiener and Skinner, and the letter writers who support their efforts to eliminate zoning restrictions in transit areas, but it appears that neither the Senators nor the letter writers who support the bill are regular commuters on BART. As any BAR...

Update: SB50 (Senators Wiener & Skinner, Assemblymember Wicks, and others)

2019 legislative session, and expressed hope the results from the Rockridge Housing Study might help inform Senators Wiener and Skinner on more nuanced approaches to address the bill’s goals. Committee members felt that the bill needed to address expanding urban public transit as well as housing. College Avenue Safeway The Committee briefly discussed problems o...

...of this bill is to combat the sort of disinformation and misinformation that we’ve been seeing online around Covid, and vaccines in particular. There’s been a lot of misin- formation, and this bill strikes at the heart of that. RN: SB 866 (Senators Wiener & Pan/authors, Wicks/principal co- author), commonly referred to as the “Teens Choose Vaccines Act,” would allow minors as young as age 12 to decide if they want to get the Covid vaccine, without parental

By Stuart Flashman

on Senators Wiener and Skinner’s New Housing Upzone Bill

RCPC Board Elections Teed Up for April Members’ Meeting T New Bill by Senators Wiener & Skinner Would Transform Rockridge and the East Bay Much of Lower Rockridge Would Be Open to 5-Story Buildings; Off-Street Parking Requirements Gone he Annual RCPC membership meeting and Board elections will be held Thursday, April 19, be...

Shall citizens be required by Sacramento to accommodate — on the State’s terms — a population of, say, 60 million? Since most citizens live at the local level, quality of life criteria rightfully belong at the local level. Do Scott Wiener and Nancy Skinner truly represent us in these matters? Rember, hous- ing central planning advocates (especially including state senators) are insulated by money and power from personally experi- encing the results of their schemes, thus they procee...

...oposed affordable housing incentives with some nonprofit and for- profit developers. The Committee discussed modifying the “high-density” scenario to more closely match that proposed in SB 827. SB 827 Fails in Committee Despite attempts by Senators Scott Wiener (D-S.F.) and Nancy Skinner (D-Oakland/ Berkeley) to amend their bill mandating upzoning near transit stations and along

By Stuart Flashman

an article on Senators Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) and Nancy Skinner's (D-Oakland-Berkeley) bill, which would mandate residential upzoning near transit stations and major transit line stops statewide. Faced with significant opposition to their bill, they have adde...

By Stuart Flashman

Flashman at chair@rockridge.org to announce their interest. by Stuart Flashman, chair, RCPC Following up on their success last year in passing SB 35 (see Land Use Committee Update article in the current issue, page 3), State Senators Scott Wiener (San Francisco/part of San Mateo County) and Nancy Skinner (Oakland/Berkeley) have introduced a new bill, SB 827, intended to address California’s housing crisis. Why I Joined the RCPC Board The bill would create a “transit-rich hous...