Sustainable Growth Yolo

The mission of Sustainable Growth Yolo is to make the region an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family; through access to quality housing and jobs

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

This week in Davis land use:

A weak 3rd draft of the housing element will be presented.

CalTrans proposed adding lanes to I-80 to accommodate commuters than cant afford Davis housing.

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

Experiences like the below dehumanizing comments is why we founded Sustainable Growth Yolo.

It was a truly awful experience to watch and the council did end up killing the proposed mixed use apartment complex directly across the street from UC Davis.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

Davis effectively would not exist if it weren't for the UC campus, and yet here are local NIMBYs, talking about students like they're vermin.

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

@marcelemoran Its wild that Davis is still debating on whether it should keep car parking minimums. Literally the most bike friendly place in the country and they cant make an easy decision to discourage car use.

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

Davis is the most bike-friendly city in the country. Yet the City Council is still debating if they should have parking minimums. This should be a No-Brainer. Eliminate parking minimums citywide, Davis.

Meeting update linked on URL
https://t.co/YGyVY3nDLT

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

Davis's Measure J made prereferral land use planning nearly impossible. Proposals cant coordinate, city cant have a vision & 6 of 7 votes since 2000 failed or no housing was built

Linked is a must-read proposal to amend J for sustainable growth in Davis. https://t.co/sL54tiy3BF

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

We need to review the latest Davis Housing Element linked here. 1st two were rightfully rejected by HCD

Davis is the wealthiest and highest opportunity city in the Sac region and regularly refuses to build homes for its community members.

https://t.co/UpLBtW1sfw

[Vanguard News Group @DavisVanguard]

Davis Releases Draft of Third Housing Element Effort

https://t.co/TOUP6NZLsu

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

City of Davis needs to make far more meaningful reforms to their housing approval process than just rezoning a few more properties to get their housing element approved.

“ City Looks to Rezone in Effort to Get Version 3 Housing Element Approved”

https://t.co/AYezjYdVyp

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

Whistleblower complaint at Caltrans saying the widening of I-80 on the causeway is from road maintenance funds and not freeway expansion funds. and will be used as a pre-tax to expand more lanes.

https://t.co/xpi1lPhuKk

[Nicole Nixon @_Nixo]

CA Senate barely passes a bill to cap rent security deposits at one month's rent, 21-9, sending it to Newsom's desk. https://t.co/fgV84FOni2

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

City of Davis continues to fail in putting together a meaningful Housing Element.

The latest rejected version included two large sites, U Mall and Nishi that have no evidence of ever producing housing that HCD called out previously.

https://t.co/4SCUSdFEr4

[Emily Hoeven @emily_hoeven]

BREAKING: @GavinNewsom signs @BuffyWicks’ AB1307, which responds to a court ruling blocking UC Berkeley housing for students & formerly homeless people. The bill confirms that people cannot be considered pollution under CEQA.

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

UC Davis built far more housing than @CityofDavis in the last half decade. They are meeting the goals of their MOU to build housing. While Davis still has a rejected housing element 2 years after the deadline has passed

[Gary S. May @Chancellor_May]

6,500 new beds on campus since 2017 - the most ambitious housing initiative in @ucdavis history.

https://t.co/znL4PqAJdu

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

We see and hear from homeless UC Davis students all the time because the @CityofDavis has accepted the policy choice that homeless undergrads is OK.

[Alex Ip 葉清霖 is alexip718.bsky.social @AlexIp718]

The current trending post on r/Berkeley is "How to survive as a female, homeless student at UC Berkeley?"

This is not okay. Something has gone horribly wrong in the Bay Area.

(Also please extend grace to these students and help them whenever you can)

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

If you’re wondering why this country is dealing with the worst housing crisis in modern history, look no further:

[SF YIMBY @SFyimby]

Should we worry about affecting the “elegance” of San Francisco just because we’re in a “perceived” housing emergency that “really isn’t an emergency”? If you listen the Board of Appeals, the answer is no.

What core values do we reflect when we continue to deny our problems?

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

Increased housing supply—> cheaper rent.

@CityofDavis can y’all legalize more housing please?

[Dov Kadin @DovKadin]

A bunch of new supply coming online (we are hitting multi-decade highs in multifamily production). Annual rent growth in Sac has fallen for 7 consecutive quarters and is now negative at -2%

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

CEQA was enacted in the 1970s to protect environmental resources.

In 2023, it’s being applied to … [checks notes] … a liquor license transfer from one grocery store to another.

Save this photo next time someone asks why CEQA reform is so urgently needed.

[Sustainable Growth Yolo @YoloYIMBY]

Moving away from project by project approvals to a well planned approach for dense peripheral growth is a way to make Davis a far more sustainable city, and provide housing for everyone who lives, works, and studies in Davis argues Tim Keller https://t.co/vldicoYkW5

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

“Why don’t people walk anywhere anymore”