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SB 79 allows apartment buildings within a quarter to half-mile of subway, light rail, and bus rapid transit (BRT).

Los Angeles tried to fight this bill but they failed.

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2025/08/135876-la-opposes-california-bill-add-housing-next-transit-hubs

https://www.facebook.com/latimes/posts/the-council-voted-8-to-5-to-oppose-state-senate-bill-79-which-seeks-to-mitigate-/1297317445768458/

One of the big objectives of SB 79 was not only to build a lot of new housing, but to help keep transit agencies afloat.

Building more housing near transit stations will help with that, to the extent it will increase ridership.

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[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 1 points 53 minutes ago

Politics aside, that's one hell of a beauty of a map

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Why would anyone be against housing near public transportation?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago

And now they are “required to allow”. Were they not allowed to do this before? And yeah is there some kind of car lobby in LA?

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

From TFA:

As David Wagner explains in LAist, city leaders oppose bills like Senate Bill 79 that they argue take too much decision-making power away from local authorities in favor of state preemption.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Have you met people?

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

Housing is scarce, so this is good.

[–] Fosss@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The bad news

Cities can delay implementation of some provisions. And that's exactly what Los Angeles decided to do.

https://www.allenmatkins.com/real-ideas/the-city-of-los-angeles-seeks-to-delay-implementation-of-senate-bill-79-sb-79-until-2030.html

There are concerns some cities will also start opposing transit extensions