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![]() ![]() ![]() "YIMBY stands for 'Yes in My Backyard,' " says Laura Foote Clark, executive director of the YIMBY Action Network, which boasts more than 1,700 members in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley chapters. But as home prices and rents have soared, they've been joined by a new, young and increasingly powerful political force: the YIMBYs. But this zucchini exists because I don’t have a big two-story house next door to me right now."įor pretty much forever, developers across the country have fought regulatory hurdles standing in the way of new housing. "And in order to garden, you need sunlight. "I brought a zucchini, because I love to garden," Sheys told the city council, wielding the fruit overhead. So, to convince the city council to stop the project, she brandished some homegrown produce. She knew Berkeley had regulations about how much shadow could be cast by new housing. Scout Sheys, the owner of the house directly next door to the proposed project, stepped up to a microphone. And this was absolutely one of those moments." "When something happens, it's going to reverberate. "Berkeley City Council meetings are kind of crazy places," says Sharenko, 31. He regularly goes to public hearings to advocate for new construction. That’s why he was at the hearing in the first place. Sharenko felt this firsthand - he was paying $2,100 a month to split a one-bed, one-bath apartment with no living room. Like any place in the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley desperately needs new housing. Now it had to get a majority of city council votes before a shovel could touch dirt. The project had already been green-lit by Berkeley's Zoning Adjustment Board, one of several public agencies involved in the approval of new housing. (Courtesy Matt Levin/CALmatters)Īs soon as Alex Sharenko saw the zucchini, he knew it would go viral.Īt a Berkeley City Council meeting last year, a developer was trying to get permission to tear down a house in West Berkeley and replace it with two, two-story homes. ![]() One neighbor objected to the new properties partly because it would cast shadows on her garden. Facebook Email The 1,080-square-foot house in West Berkeley a developer wanted to replace with two new two-story dwellings. ![]()
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