California Attorney General Rob Bonta is fighting for Senate Bill 9, a state law that allows single-family lots to be split for the development of duplexes.
In 2022, five Southern California cities sued the state, claiming SB 9 interfered with local governance by requiring cities to approve applications to divide a single-family lot into up to four units even without zoning approval.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis Kin ruled that SB 9 did not ensure access to affordable housing as it did not mandate, promote, or incentivize the units built on divided single-family lots to be classified as affordable.
SB 9, passed in 2021, was designed to expedite the construction of housing in single-family neighborhoods to boost housing availability, but a UC Berkeley report a year later noted its impact had been limited.
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