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 🥳🥳🥳
Historic, because Berkeley started the whole single family zoning thing in 1916 https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/02/17/berkeley-may-get-rid-of-single-family-zoning-as-a-way-to-correct-the-arc-of-its-ugly-housing-history