"When we, as a region, decide to spend billions of dollars to design, fund, and build a new rail line or a transit station, we are executing a profound act of urban planning. This is where an extensive amount of ‘local planning’ has already occurred."

When we're still talking about the character of blocks that have been destroyed by wildfires, we've really lost perspective. The character has already changed. Our challenge is bringing back as many families, businesses, and institutions as we can.

Listen to a Pasadena Planning Commissioner compare SB 79, which legalizes five to seven story buildings next to major transit stops, to Soviet central planning.

Mentally I'm here

They panic about an affordable, sustainable, livable city. We welcome it. If you're in California, call your Assemblymember and tell them to support SB 79.