? Lmao… what?? You want the rich to get richer while they charge us 1600.00/month for one of those lil bs studio apts…. Plus the parking. I live in this neighborhood, parkings alREADY a bi$&@… let alone having these rich management companies coming in, out bidding an actual potential home owner with cash. Then build these bs 30 second apartments that they can charge astronomical prices for… you need to educate yourself. Or stfu
@Einstein Panda Please do research about prop 13, if you are a new buyer it may help you, if you or your parents are old home owners you are milking sucking the system.
We don’t hate homeowners, but everyone still wants the American Dream of owning their own house one day. Lots of home owners now got what they wanted along with a super valuable house they can sell, but then they want to stop more housing being built so they can pull the ladder up behind them.
@@magesalmanac6424 please do research on prop 13: LONG TIME HOME OWNERS BARELY PAY PROPERTY TAXES, THEN THEY PASS THAT TO THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
Nah that's not weird at all, everywhere in the country is like this but it's changing. To an extent it's irrational though, people do need housing, including the nimby's
no person should compete with the corp if youre the person get your payday, sell your 1973 single family house for 2 million so they can build apartments
Only physical entities should be allowed to buy property. That’s predatory capitalism and it needs to be regulated. Houses are for people and only people not for conglomerates to buy and sell in hike up and make everybody live on the streets causing more homelessness.
I always LOL at these homeowners, as if the PUBLIC streets belong to them. The families that will move in are taxpayers too and they can park there too. The spot in from of your house is not your private parking spot.
Actually not true depending where you live ie watch video of danny duncan helping out a lady getting towed from in front of his house and he couldn't even stop it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
if you've ever lived or visited congested neighborhoods with no option of public transportation you'd know how much of a pain it is to fight for parking spots.
@@MarkD3P unless you have a private garage, no one has a parking spot guarantee. When you bought your house you didn’t buy parking rights in the street. Same for your neighbors. Ultimately the common public space is limited and in major cities, people have buy or rent a parking spot in a garage or lot nearby to use.
@@mrparts - of course, I've lived in San Diego in Hillcrest, North Park, University Heights and Normal Heights for 25 years. I understand how parking works. The point we are all making is that the streets are already crowded and people are fighting over spaces. There will simply not be enough street parking available for the people who live here, and will live here. The city is already not taking care of the streets in this neighborhood, and even more traffic will worsen that situation as well. This is just poor planning and mismanagement of the city.
We need more housing this is smart it’s the snobby ppl who are complaining we are trying to get ppl off the streets and more housing for ppl and families I’m all for this construction !
@@jimkeskey this is actually not necessarily true. Nimby's think everyone is a nimby but some people care about the community and are willing to have parking problems and more density for the greater good. Or maybe we like dense, walkable neighborhoods but that's mostly illegal in America because of the mandate for cars due to zoning restrictions
@@ocean6462 The people "on the streets" aren't going to afford these ADU's. Very few of the people who rent will be able to buy them and who says the "Granny Flats" will be sold and not rented? We can build all we want, but why does it have to be in the City limits? The City only wants more housing because of the tax base. Pure and simple. Its always been this way but younger uneducated people don't see this.
I thought that a Granny flat was a single story home with one room for everything, when did a Granny flat blossum into a two story one bedroom and not a studio...hmmm something is wronge here
God you’re dense. Yes lots of people want to live here, but there is a lack of housing. Therefore, a housing shortage. Do you think telling people not to move here will be a solution. No. An area that is growing is a good thing. Do you want to be like Detroit?
How can you condemn your neighborhood without seeing the results first? How can you live in the bay and ignore the housing crisis? How can you speak of being liberal here or advocate for human rights etc and be against this? If there are nice people moving in does this change the character or add to it?
Yeah I don't understand it. And cbs likes to do these pieces sensationalizing new housing development and talking to cranky nimby's, so they are given a big free platform. Admittedly parking is a problem, and the people living here will have uncertainty about being able to park. But cars aren't the best way to design a city. They should also allow small stores to be built in these neighborhoods to reduce the need for cars in a community with less of them. Of course, even considering parking, housing for humans is more important than housing for cars
It adds congestion, more water usage in a state that is stretched to the limit. Our power grid is to. We don't have a housing shortage. We have too many effin' people living here. How hard is this to understand?
@@jimkeskey I understand you're saying that but I disagree. Relative to most of the world we are not overpopulated, it's funny to see you think that, what does overpopulation mean to you? I acknowledge climate change is a serious threat but the way we solve it will be through policy and technology to reduce emissions
@@ocean6462 If you think we aren't overpopulated, then how do you explain the huge strain on our energy grid now that wasn't there 40 years ago? How do you explain water shortages every year? And don't give me climate change B.S. The data we keep is a drop in the bucket in terms of how long records have been ACCURATELY kept vs how long the world has been around. Congestion, traffic and foot...its only getting worse. I get so sick and tired of people comparing our gas prices to "the rest of the world" or our taxes to "what Europe pays". This area was just fine before the City manufactured the "housing crisis". Good liberals and true conservatives opposed over development. Somehow, some way, people have swallowed this lie like Kool-Aid and this City is NOT better for it. You probably weren't living here 40, 50 years ago to see that. And most of the people who were, are gone or leaving. There's a reason for that. I disagree with you and lets just leave it at that.
@@jimkeskey if you are from the bay like i am, you will recognize that the bay area of old is long gone. It’s not going back to the uncrowded, affordable, community-oriented place it once was. That was yesteryear, and instead of digging your heels in further trying to preserve something that no longer exists and being a nimby in the process, just look around you and adapt to the reality of what the bay area has become, and find your peace with it. It’s useless to fight it anymore because there’s nothing you can do to change the influx of new people, money, and industries. It’s already happened and the effects continue to play out. What you can do, however, is look into how to make this new form of the bay area a better place for everybody, including yourself. And to me, that entails being open to things like ADU’s, or any other means to reduce the absurdly high cost of living here and lack of decent housing. I know a lot of hospital workers who can’t afford to live in Palo alto and work at stanford hospital. Instead they have to commute 2 hrs each way from stockton. ADU’s might bring more people/congestion, but it could allow people, such as these hospital workers vital to society, to live near their work. And if you don’t want to be solution-oriented and stay bitter about the fact that the Bay Area is more like LA now, you should really consider moving somewhere with less people, or somewhere the things you listed as complaints in your comment aren’t concerns anymore. I am planning on leaving after 33 years living here because it’s gotten too crazy and cutthroat here. A LOT of my friends have left too. It’s hard to have known how it used to be vs. how it is now. I honestly can’t get out of here fast enough.
Housing hasn’t been built at the same rates in ten years causing a massive shortage nationally. ADUs are necessary to get past our horrible zoning laws and offer low income earners somewhere to live. Your neighborhood’s character is not important relative to housing needs.
Go live in that 💩 then. Or do better in life and do this in wealthy neighborhoods. Mfers doing just fine without yall rich cucks buying poor peoples homes for cheap then building 💩 apts that fall apart immediately and yall charge max rates. Gtfoh with that, “you people need this” 💩 white boy
Clearly spoken by a developer! You suck up other people's houses and destroy neighborhoods. Yes, affordable housing is needed but there must be a better solution than this!
@@MsVictory1945 Not sucking anyone’s houses up. It’s an additional structure built between or behind existing houses. The style is allowed to be dictated by the town planning board to keep a common architectural theme, but the structures need to be built since 10 years of history proves actual developers have no interest in building adequate amounts of affordable housing to keep people off the street. If you want only similarly-built houses around you with no exceptions, feel free to move into a cushy HOA subdivision with stricter bylaws.
@@DrewDienno developers are raping the neighborhoods to use a tiny loophole that makes it legal. Would YOU like to live in one of those? No, and you would not want to live next to one, i am sure.
@@MsVictory1945 okay relax with the word rape, you can argue a point without referencing sexual assault. And I would be more than happy to see ADU’s built in my neighborhood. It would bring diversity and increased tax revenue for local schools and essential services. I currently live in my state’s capitol city, I am one mile from the state house, we have chicken coops in the backyard two houses down, an elementary school and playground behind us, two other dwellings below ours, and single family homes peppered in every few buildings. We have a corner store a half a block away, a police station and firehouse one block away, and we love having a yard, private driveway, and mixed zoning around us. Again, it sounds like you just want a gated community where your neighbors live in a copy of the house you own with equal lot sizes, only single family residential zoning, and setbacks. Which is available to you, but mixed zoning needs to be more present. Us unclean high-density folk won’t bother you behind your development’s 10’ high perimeter wall.
"...I don't know how they can get away with it." I'll tell you how they more than likely get away with it. Somewhere and somehow someone's campaign funds have been fattened or someone owed someone else a political favor when the call was made to cash in the marker. It's called money in politics and long term it's going to make this country rue the day the Supreme Court ever allowed it.
To be clear, these are not "ADU's and they are not "granny flats". They are multi-story apartment buildings squeezed onto tiny lots with no consideration for parking and how it will affect the rest of the neighborhood. I live in the neighborhood, and I have no problem with granny flats or building a rental in your backyard. This is completely different, and San Diego's "Bonus ADU" law goes way beyond state law - SB9 and SB10. And the one that was finished right around the corner is renting studio aprtments in it starting at $2,000. It's not affordable and is only enriching developers and corporations.
2k? that's AFFORDABLE in the Bay Area. Try and find something cheaper. You're the cuck to spew affordable housing bullshit and then complain when they try and do it?
Money is all these developers see or care about. Same thing with the equity companies buying up all the single family homes and turning them into money-making rentals. Destroys the homes and the neighborhoods!
And San Diego politicians. Let's not forget that Gloria and buddies are the ones taking big contributions from the developers to break the old rules and enable their profits with the cost going to the citizens. It's happening in residential, in commercial, everywhere. Builders are getting rich, corporations are getting rich, and politicians are right there with them. The entire country needs to enact some kind of laws that corporations can no longer buy homes, or own no more than like, 10. Everyone's bought into "housing shortage" as the reason for increased prices, but corporate ownership turning homes into rentals and STRs dries up inventory which drives up prices which causes rent increases (guess what, corporations never move, they never sell!).
How is GRANNY going to climb those stairs.. Where will they park cars ? The sewer system issues . All those extra students, schools destroyed. None being built in RANCHO SANTA FE or HOA COMMUNITIES ???
An "ADU" Accessory Dwelling Unit is an "accessory" to a main house. You don't just knock down the main house and fill it all up with ADU's. You should be able to add one ADU if it fits and and there is proper set backs and parking. This is not proper or in the spirit of the rules.
I'm so glad this developer isn't letting people chase him off. They are in an area well served by transit. People have to live somewhere. Denser neighborhoods do change the character, for the better. More people more engaged with the place they live in.
Call it what it is; they may be studios or one bedroom units but it’s a small apartment complex. These days you can repurpose any lawyer joke by using ‘developer’ instead. Environmental impact statements? You can hear those property values dropping; I’d be pissed off too.
~12 units x ~2 cars per unit = parking WHERE 😂 I'm also reading it's a college town, these won't be affordable at all lmao stop saying it's NIMBY's being mad, the guy is being greedy and taking advantage of the area. He could build 1 story flats with 4 units a but he didn't want to because $$$$$
? There are plenty of rentals available in San Diego. It's not as though these new ones will be anything special, nor any great bargain. The developer must have no imagination or taste whatsoever, to say nothing of pride in his life's work, if all he can think to build is ugly, boxy eyesores in a neighborhood where they simply don't fit in.
We need housing everything progresses and changes that’s life. I don’t understand what the problem is if you want nothing to change then you’re already dead.
A perfect example of a delvoper take advantage of the system putting g in something that destroying the neighborhood and claiming it's to provide affordable housing what a scam he makeing money and the city officials getting there pockets lined
Even in new jersey......this horror is happing. THEY WANT US OLDER OWNERS,TO SELL,MOVE OR DIE. SO UNFARE IN OR LATTER YEARS,WE WORKEDHARD FOR WHAT WE HAVE.THOUGHT IT WOULD BE UNTILL OUR DEMISE. 🕊🇺🇲💕
It is but if you own a home you should have enough parking for yourself. Street parking is street parking and NO, the spot in front of your home is not your personal parking spot.
Nah, the owners of the land wanted to build apartments there, due to the fact that there is a need for housing. If you want parking you can find another place where the population density is low enough so that everyone can have parking. But in San Diego, we have a housing shortage, it's a big city. Housing is not as affordable as when you were growing up. If you're a homeowner in a community you don't get to participate in a cartel by voting for zoning restrictions that block new housing development and keep up the prices of your homes, taking advantage of the fact that it was more affordable when you bought and ignore the affordability crisis. You are part of a community
@@ocean6462 Thanks for your reply and I understand what you are saying. I am not sure if you are referring to me when you say housing is not as affordable when I was growing up, but I grew up in the Bay Area and it was and is extremely expensive. In the Bay Area, there is also a housing and parking shortage. Sometimes what they will create a small parking lot on the first floor of a complex or a small lot directly in front, but still on the property (if that makes sense). I am not speaking of a separate parking lot.
unfortunately this was not what the adu's were suppose to be ..the intended build was suppose to be a garage size studio apartment in your backyard for a family member like aged parents
Developer is doing God's work getting more housing. These morons bought houses where they aren't part of an HOA or restricted zoning area. That freedom that THEY have as homeowners to do whatever the f they want to do with their land applies to other owners as well. They also don't own the street - they can build longer driveways on their land if they need to do so (because their 3rd car doesn't fit in the garage because it is filled with crap LOL). Freedom comes with a cost and if you don't like it move to somewhere where it's limited. We need more housing - I live in single family zoning and hope that I can afford to add 2 ADUs on it for family in the future.
Well I'm sure the natives were concerned too when the Europeans stole their land. How concerned were the Europeans with the affects on the natives lives their genocide will have ??? Deal with it just like the natives have. 😎🎭✌️
These complaints are valid. Some investor is making it terrible for regular people to afford housing. The rent will be super high no matter what. They aren't trying to help.
In Los Angeles my neighborhood is zoned to have apartments on each lot so many of the surrounding properties are apartments with 20 people in them. The tenants are loud and have around 5 vehicles per unit so there’s no parking available in front of my house and there’s always people getting in and out of their cars. Also people throw trash out on the sidewalk. The benefit though is each unit is going up in price from $1,800 a few years ago now $3,400 for an apartment which is making the value of my home skyrocket.
People are the worst part of a community!! I also hate free property. I should be able to tell you what you can do with what you own. Cuz that's what America is all about!
Here is how to solve the affordability crisis: Ban all corporations from buying or owning single family home properties. This would free up so many homes for purchase and also thousands of short term vacation rentals owned by companies that inventory would swell, driving down home prices. With reduced home prices, rentals couldn't be as high, because people would move out to a house. With so many more homes owned by transitional ownership (ie people who marry, die, or move, putting homes up for sale), inventory would continue to be much higher. Higher supply means less bidding wars, lower prices continuing into the future. But this won't happen, because politicians receive money from the corporations and are each doing everything they can to line each other's pockets. That's why massive ADU increases are approved. That's why Midway Rising won after giving Gloria $100k. That's why community planning groups are having all power removed from them.
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So people of El Cerrito, who did you vote for? Also, who is going to pay full rent for a unit surrounded by low income units? I used to live in a neighborhood where this happened in LA County and at first there was just lots of parking problems like the renters blocking driveways of the remaining home owners. However, over time this escalated when the State started moving low income people into the units who were living on welfare rather than low income working families. Then came the gangs shooting each other in the streets, hookers walking through the neighborhood on their way to the main thoroughfares, drug needles discarded on your lawn, people urinating on your lawn after the all night parties, pit bulls always getting loose and biting people, etc. This is what the Democrats you likely voted for call progressive housing programs. Good luck on the ultimate move you will make, like i had to do, and don’t complain in the mean time or Dictator Gavin will sue your city for not cooperating with their grand plan.
Obviously, baldo developer dude has no plans to live in the "primary residence" ◔_◔ on any of those properties. So his next step will be to tear down the main houses and build ugly McMansions to rent out too, or to sell to other investors who will do the same? Either way, the town faces an influx of revolving renters and absentee landlords. Pity, because it looks like it was once a nice neighborhood.
I say build them taller. And relax the restrictions even further. Homelessness is at an all time high and migrants are coming in the bus load. They need housing too.
