Let survivors recover. Don't feed them to speculators.
The Governor protected the Pacific Palisades from these exact by-right density and lot-split laws within days of the January 2025 fire — Executive Order N-32-25. Altadena was left out only because that order was tied to a fire-hazard map. Governor Newsom can extend the same protection to the entire Eaton Fire disaster area now, with a stroke of the pen — instead of making survivors wait for SB 1090 to grind through the Legislature while speculators keep carving up burned lots.
An Executive Order is the fastest path. SB 1090 — the legislative fix, below — is the backstop. Act on both ↓
Two Assembly committees decide whether speculators can keep carving up burned Altadena lots. Build one support letter, then send it two ways.
One letter · about 2 minutes
Personalize a complete SB 1090 support letter with your story and the points you care about most.
Build my letter →File it · and send it to the members
File it with the committee (by June 24), and send the same letter to the Assembly members — routed by your district. Plus petition, testimony, and RSVP.
How to send →One letter works for both tracks. Personalized letters count — identical copy-paste ones get discounted, so add your story.
A complete support letter is already written below. Fill in the fields, click Personalize my letter, and your details and chosen points drop into it. Then edit, copy, or download it as Word to sign and file — no writing from scratch.
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The Advocates Portal and the committee consultants want a signed letter, not pasted text. Download the PDF, print and sign it (or add a digital signature), and upload or attach it. Want to add letterhead first? Download the Word version, edit and sign, then save as PDF.
First finalize: click Download as PDF in the builder above, then print & sign it (or add a digital signature). Then use either option below — the Portal is the official record; emailing the staff is the simplest. Doing both is great, but one is enough.
Create a free account, then choose SB 1090 → position Support → Housing & Community Development, and upload your PDF.
Open the portal →One click opens an email to both committees' consultants, prefilled — in Gmail or your default mail app. Attach your PDF and press send.
Either way, please cc Sen. Pérez (author) and Asm. Harabedian (co-author) if you can.
Members count constituent contacts. Use the same letter you built above — copy it, then work the list, starting with the Chairs. Tap a member's form to paste your letter, or the number to call — then click “Log call” to track it (saves on this device, so you can step away and pick up where you left off).
💾 Your checklist and your letter save in this browser — take a break and come back on the same device to finish the list.
| Member | District & area | Email (form) | Call & log it |
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| Member | District & area | Email (form) | Call & log it |
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Grab a few neighbors, split the list, and dial together. Everything you need — with our strongest, most current arguments built in:
A 30-second script plus every committee member's Capitol phone, chairs flagged.
Download (Word)Both rosters — name, party, district, Capitol phone, contact form — chairs and key staff flagged.
Download (Word)Short support emails — an Altadena version and an outside-Altadena (parity) version.
Download (Word)The strongest case — parity, fairness, evacuation & life-safety — for any audience.
Download (Word)A year and a half after the Eaton Fire, out-of-town developers are using SB 1123 (the Starter Home Revitalization Act) to subdivide burned single-family lots into as many as 10 units each — by right, with no public hearing. At least ten subdivisions are already in L.A. County records, turning ten burned lots into more than 80 — many on narrow foothill streets that just failed in a deadly evacuation. The Palisades got emergency relief from these density provisions after the same fire — but it was keyed to a hazard map that left most of Altadena out. SB 1090 is the fix. (Our concern is the SB 1123 lot-split pathway — not modest infill housing.)
SB 1090 is a narrow, time-limited exception for the Eaton Fire disaster area — not a statewide change and not a precedent. After the same January 2025 firestorm, the Pacific Palisades got emergency relief from these density provisions, but it was keyed to a fire-hazard map that left most of Altadena out. SB 1090 gives Altadena the same protection — bounded to this disaster area and justified by Altadena's specific circumstances. If your Assemblymember isn't on these committees, ask them to vote YES on fairness and parity grounds — and send this page to friends who live in the committee districts.
| When | What | Do this |
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| Wed, June 24 · 5 p.m. | Position-letter deadline (July 1 hearing) | File via Track 1 |
| Wed, July 1 · 9 a.m. | Housing & CD hearing — SB 1090 (State Capitol) | RSVP / testify |
| TBD | Local Government hearing — SB 1090 | Keep calling; watch the Daily File |
| Monthly | Altadena Town Council | See the Town Council site |
A street full of signs shows legislators and neighbors how many of us are watching. Signs are coordinated by volunteer Gilien Silsby and cost $13 each — reimburse Gilien via Venmo (@Gilien-Silsby). Fill this in and we'll open an email to Gilien with your request.
This opens an email to Gilien Silsby (gsilsby10@gmail.com), who coordinates the signs. She'll confirm the cost and her Venmo for reimbursement.
