Thanks to CHAPA for this quick action:
Click here to add your voice to urge the Conference Committee to adopt these important policies:
- YIGBY – Allowing multifamily housing as-of-right on land owned by religious institutions (Yes in God’s Back Yard), reducing local barriers to development while requiring meaningful affordability and spurring badly needed housing development (In the House bill.)
- Duplexes – Allowing duplexes as-of-right in every residentially zoned district across the state. This legislation would promote low impact, upzoning solutions, which could help us effectively address both our first-time homeowner and rental housing needs (In the Senate bill.)
- Site plan review – Establishing a statewide site plan review process that replaces today’s town-by-town patchwork with clear standards and firm timelines. The town-by-town approach that is currently implemented inadvertently promotes exclusionary zoning at a time when we need the opposite approach and policies. (In both bills.)
ALSO: contact your legislators to ask them to urge the conference committee to adopt the strongest version of the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) in the final bill. TOPA was included in both the House and Senate versions (the House more extensive than the Senate, which is limited to a pilot program), so we want to push this over the finish line in the strongest form possible.
Let’s be counted!
