The city of North Bay offered “aquatic housing”. Then came the memes

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Because housing in the City by the Bay is incredibly difficult to build, San Francisco must start building to fulfill its share of a state mandate that calls for cities across California to build a total of 2.5 million homes by 2030.

Through the Golden Gate in Sausalito, the city has recently sailed creative and solution with a large number of skewers to comply with state building or housing law: placing new developments on sites that are currently under water.

Aspects of the proposed plan, outlined in a scathing op-ed by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Emily Hoeven earlier this week, revealed that Sausalito intended to build up to 35 housing units on an underwater seafront site with “water-based housing potential” and develop another significant flooded site on 100 Spinnaker Drive earlier this year.

While those specific proposals were abandoned in a revised housing plan submitted to the state’s housing department on Feb. 27, Twitter wasted no time in mimicking the proposal with bizarre images of aquatic life – and the pro-housing YIMBY law. group is currently suing the city.

YIMBY California Political Director Ned Reznikoff posted a photo of Bikini Bottom, the underwater home of cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants, and called it an “artistic rendering” of the new Sausalito residential area. Reznikoff also compared Sausalito’s idea of ​​building underwater housing to Bart Simpson dreaming of a new life underwater.

Other critics continued caricatured comparisons. Kevin Sabellico, vice president of political campaign consulting at Amplify Campaigns and planning commissioner for Carlsbad, chose the Sausalito Planning Commission as characters in the Adult Swim animated series. Silab 2021.

Another Twitter user posted an image of a scuba diver sending mail.

The city of Sausalito did not respond to The Standard’s request for comment on the lawsuit or the Twitter memes, nor did city representatives comment on whether the Marin County picturesque town is still considering building underwater. Sausalito’s housing plan still calls for water-based housing expansion, according to Hoeven’s report.

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