A nice wonky note for a weekend morning: Forty years ago, the California Supreme Court reached a decision that laid a foundation for challenging our current zoning scheme and then advocates...did nothing? https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/27/123.html
City of Santa Barbara v. Adamson

City of Santa Barbara v. Adamson - 27 Cal. 3d 123

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/27/123.html
I guess YIMBYs didn't exist in the 80's, but developers did. Here is an old law review article that hinted at some of the impacts of that decision: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a013/15a7591a2239a44fa17d1b5b66636532ed9e.pdf?_ga=2.200048941.2000879780.1594483722-712658371.1594483722
If you think about it, it's pretty weird that our cities have rules about what a "family" is and then we build a city around that. For instance, if you live with a partner that you never marry and maintain separate bank accounts, you are not a "family" in San Diego.
This is our definition of family, if you’re curious if you fit in it:
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