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Nuomo signs a bill to protect the fire victims in Altadena and preserve the neighborhood's character while residents rebuild. CBSLA's Nicole Comtock is live in Altadena to explain how the bill will prevent developers from building highdensity housing on single family lots. Nicole, yeah, I talked with one of the eaten fire survivors who played a pivotal role in helping to get this bill passed. Now, she says what it does is give her neighbors here some time to breathe and just get their insurance claims processed so they're not pressured into selling during a really difficult financial time.
I've spent basically the better part of a month working as an unpaid lobbyist. Shauna Dawson Beer lost her home in the Eaton fire. And if recovering from that isn't exhausting enough, she's been fighting with other community members to keep outside developers from buying burned single family lots in Altadena at single family home prices and replacing them with up to 10 residential units. It's not fair or reasonable for people to be victimized again um through the market that way and they won't be for now. Wednesday, Governor Nuomo signed SB 1090 into law.
It temporarily pauses fast-tracked highdensity residential builds in Altadena. The eaten and Palisades fire ravaged the Los Angeles metropolitan region. State Senator Sasha Renee Perez, who authored the bill, said in writing in part, "By creating a three-year moratorum on SB123, eaten fire survivors will have the time they need to rebuild without the undue influence of real estate speculators while preserving their own ability to build ADUs or split lots in a manner that preserves Altadena's unique character." Bottom line, all of those 10-way lot splits, every single one was an outside developer. Critics of the bill argue it could prevent fire survivors from building multiple homes on their lots
and making money by renting them out. There are no fire survivors doing these developments. The only reason people, including myself, are not currently rebuilding is because we will not have the funds to rebuild until we are made whole by both having our insurance claims fully paid and settled and by havingce stop dragging out these proceedings and settling our suits. Dawson Beer has been advocating for her neighbors in Altadena for a decade with her group Beautiful Altadena. It started as a communications channel for the unincorporated community. Now she writes about fire recovery on the beautiful
Altadena Substack. Her most recent article titled SB 1090 is signed. We did it. As I like to say, it's something to build from. and any disaster survivors are able to speak for themselves and come to the table for themselves um that amazing things can be accomplished. And SP 1090 passed the legislature with an urgency clause meaning it takes effect today. Reporting live in Altadena, Nicole Commtock, CBSLA. Nicole, thank you.
