alt Hacker NewsRancho Palos Verdes is a small established hillside community with equestrian 1 - 5 acre lots. The absurdity of adding 650 homes to this area is astounding. Right next door is Hawthorne which has plenty of space for such housing. Activists like this person, lobbying a city they have no relation to, to enforce an overreaching state law, are part of what is making people and companies leave California.
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> Right next door is Hawthorne
30 minutes drive in no traffic, crossing half a dozen cities and the 405. There's reasons to inveigh against the YIMBYs (why are they celebrating densifying a coastal area that's actively falling into the pacific[1], nevermind it's inherent beauty) but let's not deny geography.
Also RPV doesn't have 1-5 acre lots, it just costs ~$4m for an house on a normal lot, rising to ~$20m as you get to the coast. You might be thin thinking of Rolling Hills, to the extent you're thinking of anything on the peninsula at all?
How is that absurd? If I own land and want to build 650 new homes, what exactly is the argument for stopping me, besides "I don't like it"?
If you don't want people developing their 5 acre lots, you should buy all of the 5 acre lots. Problem solved.
> The absurdity of adding 650 homes to this area is astounding
Let the free market decide whether it wants the homes or not.
I think insane real estate prices are more of a motivation to leave California than local political drama.
Can you clarify why it is absurd to add density to an area with huge 5 acre lots?