The Beverly Hills City Council addressed the historic and controversial legislation known as Senate Bill 9 at its Nov. 2 Formal Meeting. The bill, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Sept. 16, allows multiple houses to be built on single-family lots with some exceptions. The law will take effect on Jan. 1 of next year.
“As far as I’m concerned, the legislature took a very short sighted view of the issue of housing and it is my belief that what they did will not accomplish the ultimate goal that the legislators thought they were satisfying by implementing SB 9,” Councilmember Lester Friedman said. “I don’t think it’s going to really have a significant effect, surely not in Beverly Hills, of accomplishing the goal of creating more housing.”
