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Council of Infill Builders
1331 T Street
Sacramento, CA 95811

916-443-1033

December 7, 2021: The Los Angeles County proposed Safety Element , along with amendments to its land use and housing elements, presents an innovative approach to ensuring new development is climate safe and steered towards infill areas. Read our support letter.

October 6, 2021: The SoCal Greenprint will help infill, conservation and housing advocates and leaders make better decisions about where to focus future growth for resiliency and sustainability across Southern California. See our letter requesting that the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) adopt the GreenPrint into their planning.

September 14, 2021: How can we boost infill development in the downtowns and transit corridors of the San Joaquin Valley? Join us on Friday, October 1st at 10am PT for a webinar and Council of Infill Builders report release on this topic. Speakers include Fresno’s city manager Thomas Esqueda and Bakersfield City Councilmember Bob Smith, co-hosted by Fresno Metro Ministry. Register today!

August 23, 2021: Read our coalition support letter for AB 1147 (Friedman) to strengthen regional planning to reduce driving miles.

August 15, 2021: Board member Meea Kang’s 248-unit affordable housing project with Related California in South Lake Tahoe was approved in record time, as profiled by the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

June 29, 2021: New research from Mott Smith, Michael Manville and Anthony Dedousis shows that comprehensive parking reform like AB 1401 (Friedman) is likely to boost the state’s density bonus program — and all housing production.

May 20, 2021: Mott Smith writes in Streetsblog California how eliminating local minimum parking requirements helped San Diego boost affordable housing construction, as our sponsored AB 1401 (Friedman) would do statewide.

April 20, 2021: AB 832 (Bloom) will resolve uncertainty and streamline adoption of redevelopment plans to boost housing. Read our support letter.

March 16, 2021: SB 290 (Skinner) will improve and clarify the density bonus statute to expand its use in California and increase affordable housing production, and we join the California Home Building Alliance in support.

March 12, 2021: We are proud to join a coalition in support of SB 477 (Wiener), which will require local governments to provide the state with critical data needed to evaluate the impact of state laws on housing stock.

February 25, 2021: AB 1401 (Friedman) will have a transformative effect on improving and advancing infill by eliminating minimum parking requirements in transit-oriented and low-vehicle miles traveled (VMT) areas, and we are proud not only to support but to co-sponsor the bill.

February 23, 2021: SB 10 (Wiener) will streamline local approvals for projects up to 10 units near transit. Read our support letter for more information.

February 16, 2021: We support the City of Los Angeles emergency ordinance 20-0380-S1 providing parking relief for small businesses and urge some modifications, detailed in our letter.

See past news items on our press page.