Bay Area

Earlier: https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/bart-service-stopped-on-sf-line-due-to-fire-20785151.php

State law bars police from sharing data from automated license plate readers with federal agencies. They're doing it anyway.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3496521

Got out to the SF MoMA yesterday and finally got to see the Yayoi Kusama installation. It's a trip and pretty awesome. I had the place to myself and got to inhabit this 96-year-old Japanese lady's mind for 90 seconds (they time the entries, you could go back though). It's on til August, so glad I went! Also one of my favorite exhibits is back on til August on the same floor, Ragnar Kjartansson's The Visitors.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32229456

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 🥳🥳🥳

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State Senator Josh Becker said he will oppose legislation unless changes are made

While Becker voted to advance the bill, he emphasized in an interview that his support hinges on significant changes that would need to be made to the legislation before it comes back to the Senate for a final vote

"I will not vote on this bill on the way back unless the radius has changed"

The bill also proved divisive in Palo Alto, where City Council member Pat Burt described the prior version of the bill as a “one-size-fits-all” proposal that takes the “chainsaw to local zoning.”

“We’re talking about 55 feet and 5 stories by right without any parking requirements in an Eichler neighborhood” Burt said at an April meeting, referring to Eichler neighborhoods in south Palo Alto that are within half a mile of the San Antonio Caltrain station.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/housing/2025/06/11/despite-advancing-fate-of-housing-bill-sb-79-remains-uncertain/