One of Wiener’s signature legislative attempts would have preempted local control of zoning to allow mid-rise apartments near transit and to allow fourplexes almost everywhere. Those efforts didn’t clear the Senate, but a smaller pro-development piece of legislation, Senate Bill 10, passed out of the Senate and might’ve passed the California Assembly had unrelated political wrangling not killed a host of bills at the end of the last state legislative session.
Reason’s Christian Britschgi spoke to Wiener in January about his plans to reform housing regulations.
Q: How do you see the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the need for upzoning bills like S.B. 10?
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