Zoning is an instance of local government oppressing individuals. “Local control” means the person who owns a property cannot build an apartment. Marin County i

Zoning is an instance of local government oppressing individuals. “Local control” means the person who owns a property cannot build an apartment. Marin County is so adverse to housing development, they illegally stopped even one new home from being added. Now it can go forward because of state law. https://carlaef.org/2018/04/20/we-sued-sausalito-and-then-we-won/ https://carlaef.org/2018/04/20/we-sued-sausalito-and-then-we... The Bay Area has really dysfunctional governance. We have 9 counties and lots of cities. Each one independently has incentives to attract jobs and offload housing to the other counties; though, some towns were incorporated specifically to prevent integration for racist reasons. The total result is that we have way more jobs than homes in the region, and unfunded pension liabilities, and mega-commutes, and advanced gentrification. It’s in the best interests for California as a state to override this whole mess with some reasonable baseline standards. That is what SB 827 was about. https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/12/12945854/bay-area-cities-jobs-housing-san-jose-palo-alto-sf https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/12/12945854/bay-area-cities-jo... http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-unfunded/ http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-unfunded/ https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-raise-gdp-10-and-reduce.html https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-raise-gdp-... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/california-today-super-commutes-stockon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/california-today-super... https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/sb-827-retains-an-awful-lot-of-local-control-and-community-planning-b1d111fc1007 https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/sb-827-retains-an-awful-lot...