A high-profile bill that would have boosted allowable home building near mass transit and in single-family neighborhoods across California was held in a Senate fiscal committee, ending a battle that has attracted significant attention around the state.
A construction worker builds a single-family home in Palo Alto on April 15. Senate Bill 50, which was shelved Thursday, would have cleared the way for higher density housing in the community.
Senate Bill 50 by Sen. Scott Wiener would have required cities to allow four-to five-story apartment complexes near rail stations and four or more homes on land now zoned for only single-family homes across much of California.The measure would have radically altered the state’s growth patterns to direct significant new development toward urban areas, something the bill’s backers said was necessary to make housing more affordable and to meet the state’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Sen. Anthony Portantino announced at the beginning of the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Thursday that Senate Bill 50 would not advance this year, meaning the bill would not be debated again until 2020.
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