The segregationists won. Californians earning less than $250k/year lost. Environmentalists lost. Unclear whether our current system of democracy is capable of addressing the problems facing the US and California.
Your proposal that affordable housing goal be % of housing stock sounds great.
I'm more skeptical of uniform housing growth target:
* to prefer infill over sprawl for the environment
* there's more demand (stronger economy) in some areas
* want to reverse historic segregation
There were a bunch of bills passed last year that made what I've heard described as major changes to the RHNA process. But I don't know what they add up to.
The constraint that still needs to be satisfied is that the user shouldn't need to scroll in the inline direction for *each line of text*. A particular block of text should be readable with block-direction scrolling only.
In Palo Alto, I think it would be pretty viable. R-1 minimum lot size is 6000 ft², max FAR 0.45:1, so a minimum *conformant* lot would allow 2700 ft² of floor area, which is reasonably dividable.
I think the biggest deal with the fourplex part is the ministerial approval.