State Senator Gonzalez Tells "Ranchos" Neighborhood Group: Don't Tell Press What I'm Saying About My Four Plex Bill SB 9; LBREPORT.com Ignores This And Publishes Responses She Offered For Public Scrutiny And Accountability

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State Senator Gonzalez Tells "Ranchos" Neighborhood Group: Don't Tell Press What I'm Saying About My Four Plex Bill SB 9; LBREPORT.com Ignores This And Publishes Responses She Offered For Scrutiny And Accountability

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(May 27, 2021, 12:40 a.m.) -- Nearly two weeks after promising and failing to webpost a May 11 Zoom meeting she staged on SB 9 (the bill she co-authored that will require cities to permit four housing units on single family home lots except in historic districts as the bill defines them) and 48 hours before she voted in the state Senate to advance SB 9 to the Assembly (despite the opposition of multiple cities and two ELB neighborhood groups, LBREPORT.com coverage here), state Senator Lena Gonzalez provided written responses to questions she didn't answer in the Zoom meeting.

The Ranchos neighborhood group accompanied her written responses with the following May 24 text on its website:

"The senator's office included the following message with the document [she provided], 'As a state office, the answers provided focus in on the policy related. This document is meant to be an informative document for our neighbors and not intended for press or mass distribution.'"

LBREPORT.com has obtained the document, ignores Senator Gonzalez's attempt to block public and press scrutiny of her contentions and publishes the document she provided. The public has a right to know what a state Senator has been telling various audiences that she doesn't want at least one group to tell the press. To view the document she offered, click here.

No credible neighborhood group should accept an incumbent's attempt to muzzle them. That's especially true when the incumbent tries to prevent residents from telling the press what she's been telling them. The public has a right to know what a state Senator has been saying that tries to downplay the impacts of her bill that we, and many others, believe could affect single family home neighborhoods.

Sen Gonzalez hasn't disclosed the author(s) of the document that she offered to the Ranchos neighborhood group. She presumably either knows or should know who authored it. Until she discloses that basic information, residents can treat the document as they would any other anonymous dispatch.

Finally, it doesn't matter what Sen. Gonzalez or unnamed person(s) claim SB 9 does or doesn't do. The bill's text speaks for itself. Once enacted, the bill's words will be the law, not her self-serving description of what she contends her bill will or won't do while trying to get it passed.

There remains one certain way for residents to protect themselves from SB 9's impacts: to urge its defeat it as it currently stands.

Readers may also notice that in her offered response, Sen. Gonzalez lists SB 9's supporters but not its opponents. This wouldn't pass muster on a high school term paper. LBREPORT.com lists both SB 9's supporters and opponents below.

SB 9's supporters/opponents as listed in the state Senate floor legislative analytics are:

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AARP Abundant Housing LA ADU Task Force East Bay All Home American Planning Association, California Chapter Bay Area Council Bridge Housing Corporation California Apartment Association California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce California Building Industry Association California Chamber of Commerce California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce California YIMBY Casita Coalition Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Circulate San Diego City of Oakland City of San Diego Council Member Jon Wizard, City of Seaside Council Member Zach Hilton, City of Gilroy Council of Infill Builders County of Monterey East Bay for Everyone Eden Housing Facebook, INC. Fieldstead and Company, INC. Generation Housing Greenbelt Alliance Habitat for Humanity California Hello Housing Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Housing Action Coalition Innercity Struggle LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) San Diego Livable Sunnyvale Local Government Commission Long Beach YIMBY Los Angeles Business Council Mayor Darrell Steinberg, City of Sacramento MidPen Housing Corporation Modular Building Institute Mountain View YIMBY National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California North Bay Leadership Council Northern Neighbors Peninsula for Everyone People for Housing - Orange County San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce San Fernando Valley YIMBY San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Research Association San Francisco YIMBY Sand Hill Property Company Santa Cruz YIMBY Schneider Electric Share Sonoma County Silicon Valley @ Home Silicon Valley Leadership Group South Bay YIMBY South Pasadena Residents for Responsible Growth Streets for People Bay Area TechEquity Collaborative Tent Makers Terner Center for Housing Innovation At the University of California, Berkeley The Two Hundred TMG Partners United Way of Greater Los Angeles Urban Environmentalists YIMBY Action YIMBY Democrats of San Diego County Zillow Group 92 Individuals

Adams Hill Neighborhood Association Aids Healthcare Foundation Alameda Citizens Task Force Albany Neighbors United Berkeley Associated Neighbors Against Non-affordable Housing Brentwood Homeowners Association Burton Valley Neighborhoods Group California Alliance of Local Electeds California Cities for Local Control California Contract Cities Association Catalysts Cities of Arcata, Azusa, Bellflower, Belmont, Beverly Hills, Brea, Brentwood, Burbank, Camarillo, Carpinteria, Carson, Cerritos, Chino, Chino Hills, Clayton, Clearlake, Clovis, Colton, Corona, Cupertino, Cypress, Diamond Bar, Dorris, Downey, Dublin, Eastvale, El Segundo, Escalon, Fortuna, Foster City, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Glendora, Grand Terrace, Half Moon Bay, Hesperia, Hidden Hills, Huntington Beach, Indian Wells, Inglewood, Irvine, Irwindale, Kerman, King, La Canada Flintridge, La Mirada, La Palma, La Quinta, La Verne, Lafayette, Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel, Lakeport, Lakewood, Lancaster, Lomita, Los Alamitos, Los Altos, Martinez, Maywood, Menifee, Merced, Mission Viejo, Montclair, Monterey, Moorpark, Murrieta, Newman, Newport Beach, Norwalk, Novato, Oakdale, Ontario, Orinda, Palo Alto, Palos Verdes Estates, Paramount, Pasadena, Pinole, Pismo Beach, Placentia, Pleasanton, Poway, Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rancho Santa Margarita, Redding, Redondo Beach, Rohnert Park, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, San Carlos, San Clemente, San Dimas, San Gabriel, San Jacinto, San Marcos, San Marino, Santa Clara, Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, Saratoga, Signal Hill, South Pasadena, Stanton, Sunnyvale, Temecula, Thousand Oaks, Torrance, Tracy, Vacaville, Ventura, Vista, Westlake Village, Whittier, and Yorba Linda Citizens Preserving Venice Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods Coalition to Save Ocean Beach College Street Neighborhood Group College Terrace Residents Association Committee to Save the Hollywoodland Specific Plan Community Associations Institute - California Legislative Action Committee Comstock Hills Homeowners Association D4ward Durand Ridge United Encinitas Neighbors Coalition Friends of Sutro Park Hidden Hill Community Association Hills 2000 Friends of The Hills Hollywood Knolls Community Club Hollywoodland Homeowners Association Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Kensington Property Owners Association La Brea Hancock Homeowners Association Lafayette Homeowners Council Lakewood Village Neighborhood Association Las Virgenes-Malibu Council of Governments Latino Alliance for Community Engagement League of California Cities League of California Cities Central Valley Division Linda Vista-Annandale Association Livable California Livable Pasadena Los Altos Residents Los Angeles County Division, League of California Cities Los Feliz Improvement Association Marin County Council of Mayors and Councilmembers Miracle Mile Residential Association Miraloma Park Improvement Club Mission Street Neighbors Montecito Association Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance Trees Committee North of Montana Association Northeast Neighbors of Santa Monica Pacific Palisades Community Council Planning Association for The Richmond Riviera Homeowners Association San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (UNREG) Save Lafayette Seaside Neighborhood Association Shadow Hills Property Owners Association Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association South Bay Cities Council of Governments South Bay Residents for Responsible Development South Shores Community Association Southwood Homeowners Association Sunnyvale United Neighbors Sunset-Parkside Education and Action Committee Sustainable Tamalmonte Tahoe Donner Association Temecula Valley Neighborhood Coalition Towns of Apple Valley, Colma, Fairfax, Mammoth Lakes, Ross, and Truckee Ventura Council of Governments Verdugo Woodlands West Homeowners Association West Pasadena Residents' Association West Torrance Homeowners Association West Wood Highlands Neighborhood Association Westside Regional Alliance of Councils Westwood Hills Property Owners Association Westwood Homeowners Association Wilshire Montana Neighborhood Coalition Windsor Square Association 236 individuals