I’m pretty sure Trish Spencer gets the majority of her Council Referral ideas from Alameda Citizens Task Force so it’s weird that she attached a letter to only one of her three Referrals on the agenda tonight. The “oh no we shouldn’t be holding police officers accountable” agenda item we’ve already discussed. But there’s the absolutely hilarious one which asks that the City Council endorse the failed Our Neighborhood Voices campaign’s transformation into “CA Cities for Local Control” efforts to stop the effects of state legislation locally and return cities to its original state of not having to build anything where at least one person in the city doesn’t want it.
This is the framing of CA Cities for Local Control, now remember, I don’t think there have been any SB 9 (lot split) applications in Alameda even though it was being framed as the doom of nice cities everywhere.

What they mean by an “attack on Cities ability to manage their own land-use and zoning” is, oh the State is no longer going to turn a blind eye as we deny every single housing project under the absurdest pretense in order to shirk our duty to provide housing for Californians. Remember there was a prominent Alameda who was one of the largest funders to the Our Neighborhood Voices campaign, so big in comparison to all other funders that she had to be identified, by name, on the campaign literature. So this NIMBY campaign has some homegrown roots.
And there’s ya girl sitting atop a list of elected officials who also want to stymie housing production, I mean, “local control” which is populated by a disproportionate number of Republican considering, you know, it’s California.

Interesting that Tony Daysog has yet to sign up for this list. Maybe it’s his congressional aspirations holding him back from revealing himself to be full NIMBY at this time, who knows.
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