The choice facing NIMBY Boomers over new housing growth

The city is set to start planning to build 15-20 story low/moderate income housing units on the Main Street Parking lots. It is the way the last council (led by Negrete and Brock) decided to meet state mandates on new housing units.

This is a dilemma for Boomers like Denny Zane, Sue Himmelrich and Tricia Crane. Zane is a 1960's hippie type who has worked tirelessly to prevent high rises at the beach. The 3 of them are the personas behind our housing crisis as they spent decades keeping Santa Monica a "low rise sleepy beach town".

High rises are coming to the beach because the "Negrete" zoning codes have eliminated the option of townhouses in our single family neighborhoods. What will the NIMBY's do - allow high rises at the beach and keep single family neighborhoods intact or allow townhouses to replace single family homes and keep our beaches low rise.