Dear Neighbors,

We need your help — again. The Osage neighborhood is once more under serious threat. Senate Bill 79 (SB 79) would override our local planning and allow aggressive upzoning of our single-family and duplex homes.

What SB 79 Means for Osage:
Because of our proximity to the Westchester/Veterans K Line station, SB 79 would allow housing developments up to 6 stories tall (65 feet or more) right here in our residential neighborhood. 

We already fought this battle during the Community Plan Update and won. Now, SB 79 would undo all of our hard work. We cannot let that happen!

We need every voice. Please send the opposition letter included in this update to the State Assembly Housing Committee (emails below) before Wednesday to help stop SB 79.

Let’s protect our neighborhood — again!

With gratitude,
One Voice Westchester

The Housing Committee:

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lisa.engel@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.haney@assembly.ca.gov                   
yasamin.salari@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.joepatterson@assembly.ca.gov 
chloe.bowman@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.avilafarias@assembly.ca.gov                  
austin.panush@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.caloza@assembly.ca.gov                  
assemblymember.garcia@assembly.ca.gov                  

natalie.shin@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.kalra@assembly.ca.gov                    
erika.ngo@asm.ca.gov 
assemblymember.lee@assembly.ca.gov                        
andrew.white@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.quirk-silva@assembly.ca.gov             
dawn.adler@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.ta@assembly.ca.gov                           
adam.boman@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.tangipa@assembly.ca.gov                  
belle.castro@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.wilson@assembly.ca.gov                    
mark.rossow@asm.ca.gov
assemblymember.wicks@assembly.ca.gov                      
zak.castillo-krings@asm.ca.gov

assemblymember.rendon@assembly.ca.gov

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RE: Opposition to SB 79 – Protect Osage Neighborhood in 90045

As a resident of the Osage neighborhood in Westchester (ZIP 90045), I am writing to express strong and urgent opposition to Senate Bill 79 (SB 79). This bill poses an immediate and disproportionate threat to our community.

Osage is a close-knit, predominantly single-family and duplex neighborhood located adjacent to LAX. It now falls directly within SB 79’s “Tier 2” upzoning zone due to the Westchester/Veterans K Line Metro Station. While transit access can be a community benefit, SB 79 would use it as justification to override all local planning and flood our neighborhood with unchecked, high-density development.

This is deeply concerning for the following reasons:

1. Osage has already faced—and overcome—a similar challenge. Just last year, our community came together to successfully oppose the City of Los Angeles’ proposal to rezone Osage to "4L" as part of the Community Plan Update. We worked constructively with senior city planners, the Mayor’s Office, and our Councilwoman Traci Park, all of whom agreed that aggressive upzoning in Osage was inappropriate, unsustainable, and inequitable. We were assured that Osage would be protected—and now SB 79 threatens to undo all of that hard-earned progress with a single, top-down mandate.

2. We lack the infrastructure and services to absorb this kind of growth. Osage is adjacent to a world airport and already burdened by jet noise, traffic congestion, and air quality concerns. Our streets are narrow, and our infrastructure—sewer, water, public safety—is not equipped to handle the scale of development SB 79 would invite. Yet the bill contains no funding, no mitigation plans, and no local discretion.

3. SB 79 does not create affordable housing. It is falsely marketed as a solution to the housing crisis, but it contains no affordability requirement. Instead, it hands incentives meant for affordable housing to market-rate developers, encouraging the demolition of existing, relatively affordable homes in favor of luxury multi-unit buildings.

4. Osage is a textbook example of why local planning matters. Our community has embraced smart, context-sensitive planning through local Housing Elements and the Community Plan Update process. SB 79 would trample those efforts, inviting overdevelopment with no regard for our residents, history, or future.

I urge you to vote NO on SB 79. Osage cannot—and should not—be sacrificed to satisfy a misguided, one-size-fits-all housing bill that will do more harm than good. Please stand with our neighborhood and communities across California.

Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Resident, Osage Neighborhood
Westchester, CA 90045

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