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From:Jennifer Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
Sent:Sunday, December 20, 2020 2:22 AM
To:City Clerk
Subject:Fw: Portland Parking Fall Out From HB 2001- Hi Rise on Suburban Lots
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From: Jennifer Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
To: CityCouncil@Cupertino.org <citycouncil@cupertino.org>
Cc: grenna5000@yahoo.com <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020, 02:16:21 AM PST
Subject: Portland Parking Fall Out From HB 2001- Hi Rise on Suburban Lots
Dear City Council:
Portland, Oregon continues to suffer the fallout from the Oregon governor signing
HB 2001 into law on August 8, 2019. This bill allows up to four homes on single family
lots in the state of Oregon. Many people in the state are not even aware of this law
being signed at all by Oregon Governor Brown. The truth of the implications of
this bill are now coming into focus as an assault on neighborhoods across Oregon,
especially in the neighborhoods of Portland.
Portland has 100 Neighborhoods dating back over 100 years. They have their own
Department of city government that interacts with them called Neighborhood Relations.
Oregon State Land Use Authority voted to reduce parking requirements in cities and
neighborhoods across Oregon because of HB 2001. What this means for the 100 neighborhoods of Portland is that a
3,000 square foot lot that could now have up to four housing units would only
be required to have one parking space on the lot. That means that all the other parking for the
up to four housing units (which could be seven or more cars) would be parked on the
public residential street. Lets say that again: up to four houses on a 3,000 single family lot
in a one hundred year old neighborhood would only have to provide one on-site parking
place for all that new housing. All the rest of the cars are on the one-hundred year old
residential street.
The sheer insanity of this bill goes on: a 5000 square foot single family lot now is only
required to have two parking spots for up to four homes on that same lot, the rest of the
cars are out on the street.
Single family home lots of 7,000 square feet only have to a maximum of three parking
spaces. Again, three cars on the lot and seven or more cars on the one hundred year
old neighborhood street.
It gets worse. If the lot is 7,000 square feet, only one parking space must be on the lot.
Again, one car on-site, seven or more cars in the street.
The Portland neighborhoods have streets that were designed in 1900 and 1910 and
1920. The area around one hundred and ten year old Reed College is at least one mile
from any transit.
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There are home-owners in Portland and in the state of Oregon that do not even know
this bill has been passed to do this to their neighborhoods. The comment that was
heard is "we never voted on this". Yes, you never had the chance to vote on it because
you were never given the opportunity to vote on it. No one wanted you to know about the
bill. It was introduced in January, 2019 and signed on August 8, 2019 with little
outreach to the communities or state-wide.
It is even more ironic that it was introduced by a politician in Portland and people in
Portland did not even know about it until now or do not even know about it now.
The streets of the neighborhoods of Portland are already being over-run with cars
from recently legalized ADUs. One neighborhood street from 1910 has four ADUs
that have gone in over the summer of 2020 and there are so many cars on the street now
that people who lived on the street before cannot park their cars on the street. Many of the
over one-hundred year old houses have one car driveways and the streets are hilly.
So now the street parking is further flooded from the likes of HB 2001 and its attempts to
crowd up to four homes on a 3000 square foot lot in a one hundred year old neighborhood and
then have the narrow residential streets flooded with more cars from these new housing units?
And, no one has discussed the problems of the one hundred year old neighborhood utilities
that are supposed to serve this new onslaught of buildings?
Can they even dig up the roads for new services? No, the roads are clogged with cars
from the over-building from HB 2001.
This is what could happen to California if bills such as Scott Wiener's SB 10 gets passed.
This is his fourplex bill that he has has been trying to get passed for three years now. It
was SB 50 and then it was SB 902 and now it is SB 10, just introduced last week,
just mere days after the California 2021 Legislative season started.
So why all the rush to reintroduced SB 10 so quickly, when the other two exact bills
did not get passed in previous years? In fact, SB 50 was only killed in January, 2020.
And he reintroduces pretty much the same bill eleven months later, four days
after the California Legislature reconvenes in Sacramento, in the middle of a pandemic to
boot? Why the rush? Why do this when constituents are sheltering in place in
San Francisco? This SB 10 is already being endorsed by certain high density housing groups
and the bill's co-author is Toni Atkins!
So again, why the rush? The same Big Money Backers who bankrolled SB 50, and SB 902
and now SB 10 are back at it again. They do not care about what the state is going through,
all they care about is the top dollar of build and build in the suburbs. A lot of this money
also went into passing HB 2001 in Oregon. Same Big Money Backers.
Be aware, California. What happened to Oregon could happen to you. The Big
Money Backers don't want anyone in California to know the true nature of these housing bills
or that they are even being introduced already in the fledgling California 2021 Legislative
season.
Let HB 2001 be an example of what could happen if SB 10 ever passes in 2021.
California neighborhoods could wind up like Portland neighborhoods and
even neighborhoods in Eugene and Bend and Corvallis, for that matter. It happened
in Oregon. It is happening here now.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Griffin