Most cities in California currently BAN multi-story buildings.
You can’t build apartments. 🚫
You can’t build condos 🚫
Across California, single-family-only zoning districts dominate the land use, even next to transit systems.
SB-79 will make it legal to build apartment buildings near transit including in areas currently zoned only for single-family homes, by allowing up-zoning and rezoning.
The bill will now go to the state Assembly for hearings
https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/04/committee-chairs-housing-policy/
This is the third attempt to pass such legislation. Previous versions of the same bill — SB 827 in 2018 and SB 50 in 2020 — were killed by opposition from angry city councils.
Yes! More condos!