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Sacramento City Council Rejects Neighbors’ Appeal, Violating CEQA, Sidestepping Zoning Laws, Ignoring Community Input

May 15, 2026 3:39 pmMay 15, 2026 3:39 pm

The behemoth project currently proposed for the Sacramento square block of Alhambra to 30th, to C Street to D Street, and opposed by the quaint neighborhood’s residents, will be going forward. The City of Sacramento thumbed their noses at the...

Sen. Weiner’s Bill is Turning Every Neighborhood in California into a Dangerous Political Experiment

February 11, 2026 4:00 amFebruary 11, 2026 7:47 am

Sen. Scott Weiner’s SB 79, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October 2025, will force single-family neighborhoods to accept high-rise apartment buildings. And it’s already happening. With Wiener’s latest effort to transform residential neighborhoods into big, dense cities, the...

California Legislature’s ‘Gut and Amend’ is ‘Bait and Switch’, This Time Trying to Destroy Charter Schools

September 10, 2025 4:32 pmSeptember 10, 2025 5:56 pm

UPDATE below: The “gut and amend” bills in the California Legislature are nothing more than a legislative bait-and-switch. “Gutting and amending” unrelated bills into controversial legislation prevents Californians the time guaranteed by law to review and deliberate. We recently saw...

How the Legislature Complies with Proposition 54’s 72-Hour Rule

September 6, 2025 2:00 pmSeptember 6, 2025 2:07 pm

Proposition 54, which was enacted by the voters at the November 2016 general election, adopted constitutional and statutory changes dealing with bill amendments and recordings of legislative proceedings. Among those provisions, how does the California Legislature comply with Prop. 54’s...

Sen. Wiener’s SB 79: Forcing Single-Family Neighborhoods to Accept Low Income High-Rise Apartments Next Door

July 7, 2025 10:28 amJuly 23, 2025 4:54 pm

SB 79 by Democrat State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco would force single-family neighborhoods to accept high-rise apartment buildings. This favorite policy of Sen. Wiener goes back to 2019 when he authored the controversial housing/zoning bill SB 50, which...

Can Proposition 54 and the 72-house in Print Rule Be Waived?

June 25, 2024 10:00 amJune 25, 2024 10:01 am

Proposition 54, which was enacted by the voters at the November 2016 general election, adopted constitutional and statutory changes dealing with bill amendments and recordings of legislative proceedings. The proponents of Prop. 54 (in ballot arguments) were specifically concerned with...

Frequently Asked Questions about Gut-and-Amend Bills

January 5, 2024 2:35 amJanuary 5, 2024 2:36 am

What is a “gut-and-amend bill”? According to the California Office of Legislative Counsel, these measures are “when amendments to a bill remove the current contents in their entirety and replace them with different provisions.” What legislative rule is invoked with...