Clayton DeweyI know I'm in my forties because
yesterday I spoke at my city council meeting in favor of the proposed zoning ordinance changes.
Today I am playing pickleball.
It ain't sexy, but if we want that #solarpunk future of high density, walkable, decommodified housing the city of Lakewood needs to ditch its racist, classist zoning laws that mandate sprawl.
I managed to get some laughs at a city council meeting that was 2 hours deep into public commenting by the time I spoke.
So I consider that a win.
Here's my actual testimony!
Also, one of my city council reps reached out to me afterwards to be in touch further about social housing, affordable housing, etc etc
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Thanks for doing this!
This is a very hot topic in California right now, especially LA: #SB79 would override local height restrictions around public transit stations.
Most #urbanists consider this an obvious good. But within the #socialist community, not everyone loves giving private developers this freedom.
@FullyAutomatedRPG yeah I totally get that hesitation. I've talked it over in our local DSA chapter and our take is that this is a necessary first step but then it will be very important to organize for actual affordable housing.
The long term dream is to have social housing. We're making inroads in Denver. In Lakewood it would be hard to find the money and political will (we don't even have municipal trash and recycling).