Altadena is rebuilding right now, and SB 1090 would take away one of the few tools that makes rebuilding financially feasible.

State law currently lets homeowners in fire zones split a lot or add a second home under SB 9, and build small townhome projects under SB 1123. SB 1090 would suspend both in Altadena until 2030. Here is what that costs:

• Insurance is falling short – Selling half a parcel is how many families close the gap between their payout and what rebuilding actually costs.

• Owners who cannot rebuild need buyers – A builder can only pay a fair price for a burned lot if that lot can hold more than one home.

• Renters lost homes too – The townhomes SB 1123 allows are among the few ways displaced renters come back.

• This is not upzoning – These laws produce duplexes, second homes, and townhomes, the same low-density forms already found across Altadena.

SB 1090 would strip Altadena homeowners of rights every other homeowner in California has, and it would fall hardest on the people with the fewest resources to rebuild.

Vote NO on SB 1090.