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WAKE UP TO THE LAWS AND POLICIES PUTTING US AT RISk
Housing Mandates Ignore Public Safety
Density = Structure to Structure Spread
Density allows fire to spread rapidly. The huge mandates and density demands are forcing cities to make impossible decisions: Approve developments that impact public safety or face lawsuits, fines, and further loss of local land use control.
Good Planning means accounting for:
- Verified evacuation capacity, based on realistic congestion and emergency scenarios
- Infrastructure readiness: water, roads, emergency response, drainage
- Hazard-aware siting: wildfire, flood risk, seismic exposure, and access constraints
- Environmental contamination and degradation
Can We Get Out Safely?
Housing is being approved in wildfire, flood, and earthquake zones without verified evacuation capacity or infrastructure readiness. Streamlining laws let huge projects get fast approvals without impact studies, community input, or long term planning. We can meet housing needs without gambling with public safety.
OUR TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES ARE UNIQUE; ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
Good policy means better outcomes
Communities Must Shape Their Own Growth
Local residents understand and care about:
- Fire and evacuation realities
- Infrastructure limits
- Treasured historical resources
- Environmental constraints
- Community needs
Cities should retain the authority to plan, not just process applications.
Count Affordability First
Housing policy should consider how many people are served, and at what cost. Instead, the state assigns unachievable unit targets, and twists the numbers: a studio apartment, a two bedroom condo, a five bedroom house, and a fifty bed care facility are all counted as a single unit, regardless of the number of people housed. Affordability isn’t part of the total count.
Developers must be accountable stakeholders
If private entities are granted public power, they must:
- Participate in community solutions, not override them.
- Provide enforceable affordability
- Share long-term responsibility for impacts
Profit should follow public benefit—not replace it.
It’s not just about quantity
Streamlining to make building easier isn’t working
California‘s housing crisis is in affordability, accountability, and governance.
State laws and policies focus on accelerating housing production by removing local decision-making; we believe lasting solutions require affordable homes, local stewardship, and public accountability.