Health & Fitness
Piedmont Strongly Opposes ABAG Housing Requirement
Piedmont's Letter Opposing Plan
"As City Planner Kate Black notes in her report to the council, the state requirements filter down to local jurisdictions and affect each city's state-mandated General Plan, Housing Element and Climate Action Plan.
"At the January 17th meeting, the Council directed staff to send a letter to ABAG and MTC indicating Piedmont’s strong objection to the housing and jobs projected in the last three alternative land use scenarios. All three scenarios projected 627 new housing units and between 330 and 690 new jobs in Piedmont by 2035," Black says in her report.
"Shortly after the letter was sent, staff met with ABAG’s senior staff to discuss the process and echo the significant concerns Piedmont had to the projections. Staff reiterated the impossibility of accommodating that level of housing and jobs in our built-out city; the loss of redevelopment tools in California as a means of forcing redevelopment; and the fact that lacking public transportation infrastructure, higher density housing in Piedmont would actually increase greenhouse gas emissions."
