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> They can ED single-family homes, rezone the properties for multifamily dwellings On track, but the process you describe is overcomplicated. The whole process
by dodobirdlord 6y ago
> They can ED single-family homes, rezone the properties for multifamily dwellings
On track, but the process you describe is overcomplicated. The whole process can be collapsed to "SF needs to upzone most of the city".
Land zoned for multifamily dwellings is worth a lot more than land zoned for single family dwellings, so the owners would have reasonable grounds to sue if the city used eminent domain to seize their property under single family zoning with plans to upzone to multifamily zoning. They would probably win and be entitled to fair compensation for assessed value as of the later zoning. So if the city were going to pursue this route it would need the upzoning first, which the city has always been able to do and has refused to do anyway.
- jeffbee 6y agoYes but a neat workaround is to simply ED the properties of all the people who have been lobbying against the upzoning since ~always. They demonstrably were not in line to gain from the zoning change, since they personally prevent it.
- bhawks 6y agoIf you use previous political views as an input into the eminent domain decision I am pretty sure the courts are going to give you a hard time (justifiably so).
- jeffbee 6y agoIt's actually settled case law in California that you can declare a neighborhood a "slum" and subject it to "urban renewal" based, in part, on a high concentration of "communists". Yes that is bananas, but there you go.
- brewdad 6y agoHow would that help? If I were fighting city hall about upzoning and they went and upzoned my property anyway, I'd likely sell my newly increased value property to someone else (or have it be ED'd at a higher compensation) and then move somewhere that still has single-family zoning. Whether one has been fighting upzoning or not, they are still entitled to the higher value.