#California Gov #Newsom signs #ScottWiener bill to bulldoze over opposition to expansion of #housing density and residential construction projects along key rail transit corridors.

New #Yimby law "Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act" (#SB79) creates less restrictive state #zoning codes, limits options for those seeking to stall plans, restrict density or halt new housing near transit stations.

Opposition to legislation included exburb #NIMBY #realestate investors who fear #construction of potential seven story condo bldgs near rail transit corridors that would destroy perception of aesthetic quaintness of #suburbs like Burlingame, or Petaluma etc.

Earlier this summer #GovNewsom signed similarly YIMBY-backed #legislation to exempt most urban apartment projects from #CEQA reviews, the state’s signature environmental protection law. “Go YIMBYs,” Newsom said when signing that bill into law.

The state's "housing crisis" conditions in which distinct lack of rental unit availability, and #Prop13 tax measure after effects etc, have all spiked the price of basic housing options, and put vast swaths of not particularly exceptional suburbs amongst the nation's highest priced #realestate markets.

“In California we talk a lot about where we don’t want to build #homes, but rarely do we talk about where we do—until now,” said law sponsoring state senator Wiener in a statement about his fourth in a decade long attempt to get similar laws passed. “SB 79 unwinds decades of overly restrictive policies that have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people away from #jobs and #transit and into long commutes from the #suburbs or out of the state entirely. It has been a long road to tackling these decades-old problems, but today’s signing marks a new day for #AffordableHousing in California.”

https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/10/newsom-signs-massive-california-housing-overhaul/

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/10/california-sb79-housing-berkeley-transit-oriented-development

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2025/10/10/sb-79-san-francisco-signed.html

https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-sb-79-map-neighborhoods-address-housing-california-bill-bass-newsom

https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/09/neighborhood-transit-upzoning/ #UpZoning #Development #WeinerWorld #HousingAffordability

Actress #LeahRemini Details Why She Is #Outraged That #California #GovNewsom Elevated A Longtime #Scientology Defense #Attorney Into State's #Judiciary Branch As A #SuperiorCourt Judge in #LosAngeles ...

Remini Herself Has Litigated Against William Hobbes Forman, Well Known For Prior Roles Defending The Caustic, Controlling & Controversial #Celebrity Stalking Quasi Religious Sect From Cases Over Rapes & Other Physical Abuse. In Recent Past Forman Went After #AtTheDriveIn & #MarsVolta Vocalist #CedricBixler's Right To Refuse "Church" Arbitration Demands, And Even Remini's Own #FirstAmendment Right To Criticize The #SeaOrg Publicly.

https://open.substack.com/pub/leahremini/p/governor-newsoms-appointment-for

@FoodieKenobi

More. More more more. Laugh at the dumb fuck, giggle at the stupid racist old shit. It'll be funnier when the mayonnaise tyrant is locked up, but lol, what a goof.

#trump #GovNewsom

#Drumpf shakedown of #UCLA over alleged "Anti-Semitism" on campus sees #USGov freeze over $500 million in federal funding for imperiled research programs and #DOJ demands school pay a #Billion dollars baksheesh as "#reparations".

#Federal officials demand a third party oversight official installed to insure #compliance that #SouthernCalifornia school will no longer viollate #TitleVII of the #CivilRightsAct, prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Last month Attorney General #PamBondi announced she would "force UCLA to pay a heavy price for putting Jewish Americans at risk"

#California #GovNewsom.and #UCregents apparently not amused and will continue negotiating against paying a $1 billion #edu settlement to #DrumpfAdmin

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ucla-settlement-funding-california-2110985

#YourTaxDollarsAtWork : #California state prison site in #KernCounty is being converted into the state’s largest #immigration #detention center under a new contract between #ICE and #PrivatePrison operator #CoreCivic. 2,560-bed facility expands ICE carceral capacity in immigrant heavy state by 36%.

Since being shuttered by #GovNewsom as a state penal facility in 2024, remote #CaliforniaCity officials had bemoaned losing the jobs and $1 million per year in revenues from #sewage and water services.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-city-largest-migrant-detention-center-20386228.php?hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2NhbGlmb3JuaWEvYXJ0aWNsZS9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLWNpdHktbGFyZ2VzdC1taWdyYW50LWRldGVudGlvbi1jZW50ZXItMjAzODYyMjgucGhw

🤦‍♂️ One step forward. Two steps back.

#TheOrangeMenace practically GIFTED #GovNewsom a chance to rebuild his decimated popularity after #Newsom tried to NORMALIZE #Deplorable Far Right #MAGAts Charlie Kirk & Steve Bannon on his podcast, and he was doing an AMAZING job taking on #MangoMussolini's efforts to declare #MartialLaw in #LA and turn Cali into a #PolceState.

...and THEN he has to do something BONE-HEADED like this. #JFC.
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/newsom-admin-moves-permanently-ban-hemp-thc-calif-20376584.php