I have three different summer camp apps and today was told to install a fourth.

When l looked more closely at the data last year, there were definitely some of those but not many. Here's one that looks like a McMansion with a two ADUs in the back.

SB 9: More in my backyard How the law is supersizing the ADU movement in LA

I wrote about how people are using SB 9 in LA last year:

2025 SB 9 projects in LA - Google My Maps All 945 projects that pulled permits to start construction in 2025.

Like in 2024, over 90% of projects are in the Valley, where lots sizes are bigger. Lot size matters because the vast majority of projects are homeowners building in their backyards. Almost nobody is doing lot splits - only 18 last year.

SB 9 is taking off in LA the way ADUs did 7 years before.

Maybe not totally fake upzoning LA has taken the first baby step toward ending single-family zoning in the city. Is it real?

Great post! One quibble - it's hard to say LA adopted its biggest upzoning ever in order to delay SB 79 implementation when they did it with a basically useless program that has generated zero homes so far. Hopefully they'll tweak the program to make it better, but the jury is still out.

Is there any data on the impact on bus speeds?

A huge percentage of the CHIP projects submitted so far have been on "Lower Income Rezoning Sites", which, due to state law, have by-right approval, including with unlimited waivers.

There's a lesson in there for the city, if they choose to pay attention to it.

OMG

Need bike boulevard infrastructure there stat!

Love to see Nithya mention shared housing as a way to get unhoused people indoors. I wrote last year about a great kind of brand new shared housing - double duplexes - that LAHSA has used to bring hundreds off the streets. But of course city leaders hate these buildings and have tried to kill them.

Awesome!

Great to see Janice Hahn advocating for more Metro riders on the Metro board. It's currently almost entirely comprised of politicians.

Lots of brick on new projects in Portland.

This project is a headscratcher because they designed it to the specs of the (never before used) Corridor Transition program but then applied under the TOIA program, which has stricter affordability requirements. 🤷

Apple Spatial Audio is garbage

UNACCEPTABLE

Waymos also fully slow down to the marked speed limit in school zones, which is wonderful.

They're prefab

They amended it to fix the date!

The cities the governor is threatening to sue are not out of compliance with SB 79 (they are not in urban areas). Their housing elements are out of compliance.

chart sorted by age of LA city councilmembers showing their vote to delay/implement SB79. avg delay vote age was 56, avg implement vote age was 42

Great explainer, thanks. I was curious what the age composition was of those for and against delayed implementation and it stacks up how you'd expect.

Amazing!

L.A. City Council to allow apartments in some single-family zones to delay SB 79 In an effort to forestall the implementation of SB 79, the Los Angeles City Council voted to expand the citywide housing incentive program (CHIP) to permit mid-sized apartment buildings in select single family zones.

The expansion of development incentives was the least aggressive of three options the Council considered

Background here:

🚨🚨🚨Gov. Newsom threatens to withhold homeless funding from LA over SB 79 implementation: "I cannot in good conscience provide any additional resources…if you have cities like LA who are violating state law - SB 79. I mean, you don’t build, we’re not going to fund. Period."

Uh, disabled people beg to differ?

Thank you!

Maybe not totally fake upzoning LA has taken the first baby step toward ending single-family zoning in the city. Is it real?

Clearly he read this!

Um wow