The following letter was sent to the City Council on Tuesday by Northeast Neighbors Chair Tricia Crane.

Under this second Density Bonus law, a 100-unit project that qualified under the first Density Bonus maximum to grow to 150 units is now eligible to build 200 units.

This stacked Density Bonus law is a massive acceleration of densification that can be applied by developers to ALL affordable inclusionary projects in the city. Nothing of this density multiplying impact has been included in the environmental impact report (EIR) submitted by the City of Santa Monica to the State for the Housing Element.

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