-- VOTE SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK (7/12) IN ASSEMBLY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE --
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
ACTION ALERT - BizFed OPPOSES SB 12 (McGuire) that will further exacerbate the current housing crisis without achieving the purpose of protecting the public from wildfires.
Next week (7/12), the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee will hear and discuss SB 12 (McGuire) beginning at 1:30pm.
Below are three ways to voice your opposition and make your voices heard (any or all actions are welcome):
1) Send in your letter of OPPOSITION in less than a minute!
2) Call into next week's Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee at 1:30pm and voice your "Me Too" in opposition to SB 12.
--- Call-in number and information to be released by committee next week. Will provide in follow-up alert ---
3) Post on Twitter - Here are some sample tweets:
#SB12 by @ilike_mike will not only exacerbate the housing crisis but will do nothing to protect the public from wildfires. In fact, it could open local agencies to unnecessary lawsuits. Join @BizFed in opposing #SB12!
#SB12 has been touted as necessary to protect residents and homes from wildfires. Nothing could be further from the truth. SB12 by @ilike_mike is flawed and fraught with problems. @BizFed
@BizFed is opposed to #SB12 as it will open the door to an avalanche of onerous and unnecessary regulations that stifle new housing construction. Tell @ilike_mike to drop SB12!
#SB12 ignores the fact that for decades, California homebuilders have been effective in protecting homes from wildfires. Tell @ilike_mike to drop SB 12. @BizFed
Very soon, @DavidChiu and his Housing Cmte will hear #SB12. He and his cmte members need to know that SB12 will create unnecessary and costly hurdles at a time when CA is in a housing crisis. @BizFed
Background:
Over the last several years, California and its local jurisdictions have incorporated the most advanced and protective fire standards and technologies into new developments. Homes built under California’s current Wildland-Urban Interface Code, Fire Code and Building Code standards and Title 14 fire regulations have a proven track record of successfully withstanding fire events.
Despite the success of this existing regime for new development, SB 12 (McGuire) seeks to impose a new regulatory framework that will place duplicative procedures on development that could result in a number of unintended consequences, including the stifling of the creation of critically needed housing stock.
See our letter opposing SB 12 and the July 12 agenda:
Last month, Lucy Dunn from the Orange County Business Council, Jeff Montejano of the Building Association of Southern CA and I published an Op-Ed on SB12 and how it will threaten home construction. Check it out here
Who is on the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee?
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