Death to small towns and communities

The State Legislature has sent to Governor Brown's office SB1; he has not yet signed the bill.  This legislation funds all the ABAG-One Bay Area mandates which include high density-below market rate housing and establishment of transportation hubs in even small towns and communities throughout the Bay Area.  (In other words, not just cities like Sunnyvale, Mt. View, San Jose, etc). That means that even small communities and towns will have to provide increasing numbers of below market rate housing even if there is no place to put it! Most demands are already extremely high even in stable population and fully developed small towns--like Los Gatos, Saratoga, Hillsborough, Monte Sereno, etc.

Many cities are opposing the ABAG demands and are forming a coalition to stop One Bay Area.  There has also been increasing publicity about the issue in the media.  Feel free to "Google" One Bay Area; you will find a great deal of information regarding ABAG's One Bay Area.

The only way to prevent the demise of small towns is to request that Governor Brown not sign SB 1.  Please feel free to  write or call him at the Governor's office in Sacramento if you want to preserve Saratoga and all similar special and unique communities.