Riviera Homeowners Association

Please save this date:

Wednesday October 14th 2020
7:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.

Join us for our first ever online Zoom RHA General Meeting!

We’ve planned a great event, with guest speaker Mike Griffiths (Torrance City Council Member), who’ll discuss the impact of recently passed bills to your block, our City and State. And we’ll give all you need to know on how to vote in November, highlight a couple of the 12 ballot measures, and provide the latest on Butcher-Solana.

This will be new for all of us, but we’re positive we can make it a success—especially if you are with us! We hope to see you online on the 14th and don’t forget to join or renew your RHA membership now! Whether tracking statewide bills that greatly affect our neighborhood, donating to our local school programs or giving scholarships to college-bound seniors, we’re still here. And, we need your help with dues that enable us to do these things, plus keep you informed, via newsletters and meetings (that we hope will return before too long). We need you to renew or join today!

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Lawmakers from the San Francisco/Bay Area have decided that they know better than our local officials, how our zoning laws and housing should be handled. As a result, over the past two years, there’s been a push to gut the CEQA (Environmental) and local zoning controls that are currently, have been, and MUST remain, in the hands of each City.

Our representatives head back to Sacramento Monday, and begin to vote on a slate of bills that will remove local controls. Unfortunately, these bills are being presented under the pretext of fixing the affordable housing and homelessness crisis; but they do nothing of the sort!  In fact, some of them even reduce the required numbers of affordable units developers must include in order to get density bonuses and height breaks. (One of the bills even allows rescinding of voter-approved ballot measures, some as old as 108-years!)
These bills remove open space requirements, parking space minimums, height restrictions, and single-family zoning, all challenged by state Senator Scott Weiner (SF).
Here’s a great article that sums up the overreach problem very well.

For an overview on the 9 Worst Bills, see LivableCalifornia.org (ACT NOW page). You’ll be able to get a synopsis of the worst bills there:
SB 1120, SB 902, SB 995, SB 1085, AB 725, AB 1279, AB 2345, AB 3040, AB 3107. You’ll also be able to click on one link, and instantly have a letter of opposition sent to the appropriate lawmaker of each bill.

Time is of the essence! Because virtually all news coverage has been on the life and death issues of CoVid, and the hugely important protests, Legislators are able to fly under the radar, with folks understandably more focused on saving lives and livelihoods.

Please WRITE and/or CALL TODAY!  Once these bills get passed, it will likely be too late for our Cities to have the power to do anything about it!

Senator Ben Allen
(310) 318-6994
Ben.Allen@sen.ca.gov

Assembly member Al Muratsuchi
(310) 375-0691
Al.Muratsuchi@asm.ca.gov

Daily Breeze
letters@dailybreeze.com
[Please provide your name, city and telephone number (telephone numbers will not be published).  Letters of about 200 words will be given preference. Letters will be edited for length, grammar and clarity.]

LA Times
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/submit-letter-to-the-editor
[Fill in your full name, mailing address, city of residence, phone number and e-mail address. Submissions that do not include this information cannot be published. They typically run 150 words or less and may be edited. You will be contacted if your letter is a candidate for publication.]

Beach Reporter
tbrnews.com
[Once there, click on “Opinion” then “”Submit a Letter” to get direct submission form.]

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On Friday, our CA State Senator Ben Allen will vote on the latest in the long line of zoning changes that will be terrible for our City and our State.

SB 902 is yet another terrible zoning bill that diminishes local control of our own cities.  Call him at (310) 318-6994 to say, “VOTE NO on SB 902.”

SB 902 allows nullification of already-approved voter initiatives in order to open up protected lands and shorelines, all for San Francisco Senator Weiner’s dream of 10-unit luxury apartments almost everywhere.

Under SB 902, municipalities would be empowered to undo decades of voter-enacted citizen initiatives that restrict land use. This anti-democracy clause went unnoticed for months, due to the complex wording.

This does nothing towards gaining AFFORDABLE HOUSING. All it does is take away our rights as voters!

For text of Senate Bill 902, click here.

CALL Sen Allen TODAY at (310) 318-6994 and and say NO to SB 902!

(And then, tell 20 of your friends to do the same!)

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