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Look at the price of residential-zoned lots versus the price of a finished home. The cost of a house isn't in the building.

In the Bay, sure, but this is a statewide regulation. What about a $200,000 home out east that is now 15% more expensive?

This will add $20k to $30k. Even in the Bay area, that's substantial. Especially when you are already on the edge of affordability.

The cost of the solar panels doesn't necessarily come out of the buyer's pocket. Instead, the cost could come out of the previous landowner's profits, if prices are mostly determined by what buyers can afford. In other words, the land drops in value by the cost of the solar panels that will have to be installed on it.

Taxing land intensifies use. This is a stealth land tax.

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Transportation across single-family-home sprawl, which we explicitly cultivate with regulation, is a far greater contributor to climate change than utility power.

Step 1: Worry about a serious problem.

Step 2: Virtual signal with a supposed solution.

Step 3: Mock anybody who criticizes that solution (but who also worries about the serious problem).

california at its finest