cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32229456

Berkeley has officially ended single-family only zoning and legalized multifamily housing citywide!!!

Passing early this morning, Berkeley legalized duplexes, quadplexes, and small apartments across the city, effectively eliminating single-family zoning.

It took 6 years. 6 fucking years.

Thank you to the housing expert Jordan Grimes.

Props to the activist Sam Greenberg who showed up with this sign:

Thank you to the Nobel-Prize winning physicist who wrote a letter to the Berkley Council:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/439f2266-ca6d-4a6d-b03c-ed0e12922f2a.jpeg

This is a WIN for housing in the Bay Area 🥳🥳🥳

  • macncheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Huzzah! I live in Berkeley and in fact in a back house behind another house. But to achieve this the lot was split to have two parcels which I’m sure was a headache to go through all the permitting and official changes through the city. I really like this arrangement though, to allow for more people and families to live here. I live in an already mixed use area so there are apartment complexes and also single family houses on the block and increasingly lots with two or three separate dwellings like ours. Housing is always going to be an issue, why not be more creative with solutions?