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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Choosing where to live is a "lifestyle choice," like choosing who to love, former <keyword id="12037987" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="beverly-hills" source="Orion">Beverly Hills</keyword> mayor <keyword id="12251444" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="john-mirisch" source="Orion">John Mirisch</keyword> said in a column.</li><li>Mirisch made the comparison while arguing against pro-development housing activists.</li><li>His passion on the issue sums up the housing market's tension between the conservative status quo and change.</li></ul>A war is being waged over US housing. Beverly Hills, California, is a key battleground, and one of the city's former mayors feels so strongly about protecting home values that he wrote a column comparing it to the freedom to "love whom you love."The column, by John Mirisch in <a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/09/the-one-element-missing-from-the-discussion-of-housing-tolerance/">CalMatters</a>, underscores the wide gap between pro-housing advocates and those looking to protect home values. These groups have acquired the monikers YIMBYs and NIMBYs, as in "yes in my backyard" and their "not in my backyard" opponents. Preventing development in your backyard is good for home values, and for Mirisch, that's beyond a policy debate - it's a lifestyle choice."In California we pride ourselves on being very tolerant of a diverse array of lifestyles and lifestyle choices," wrote Mirisch, who remains a <a href="http://reelectmirisch.com/john-mirisch/">member of Beverly Hills' city council</a>. "Dress how it suits you; love whom you love; define yourself in accordance with your own preferences."In a sign that NIMBYs are threatened by the direction of the debate, Mirisch sounds the alarm. "If living in a home with a garden is your thing, you probably shouldn't expect Californian tolerance from a certain group of people who with cult-like zeal will tell you that your lifestyle is bad, wrong, immoral and even 'racist.'"Mirisch is likely responding to the recent spate of victories by YIMBYs, who are largely millennial and Gen Z housing advocates. YIMBYs argue for denser apartment developments, more home construction, and widespread housing availability. The group successfully pushed Berkeley to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/housing-market-crisis-jesse-arreguin-mayor-berkeley-residential-zoning-homes-2021-9">reverse its century-old history of exclusionary zoning</a> and, just weeks ago, was pivotal in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/california-single-family-zoning-housing-crisis-nimby-yimby-millennials-boomers-2021-8">California outlawing single-family zoning</a>.Mirisch specifically decries how the <keyword id="11969509" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="yimby" source="Orion">YIMBY</keyword> agenda is an "elimination of single-family neighborhoods," and said the activist group's ideals would strip Californians of an important lifestyle option.A handful of Mirisch's claims fall short. For one, homosexuality isn't a "lifestyle choice" that can be likened to music preferences or fashion. Also, YIMBYs argue for more housing density, including duplexes on single-family lots, not necessarily eradicating single-family neighborhoods.Mirisch also leaves unaddressed how single-family zoning has its roots in explicitly racist policy from the early 1900s. For example, a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/us/racist-deeds-covenants/index.html">CNN investigation from February 2020</a> found a contemporary Beverly Hills deed that included language restricting occupancy by "any person other than of the white or Caucasian race."Beverly Hills is among the most expensive neighborhoods in the US, with median home prices nearing $4 million at the end of August, according to Zillow. The city is therefore one of the least likely to cave to pro-housing initiatives.Mirisch didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.Mirisch is not alone in his passion on housing issues. Over the last year, outrage over property prices has reached a fever pitch, as the dire <keyword id="12078059" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="housing-shortage" source="Orion">housing shortage</keyword> is keeping millions from climbing the socioeconomic ladder. Millennials <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-buying-homes-housing-shortage-roaring-20s-demand-2021-7">are struggling to buy homes</a> just as they hit peak homebuying age.In most cities, the shift to remote work during the pandemic and record-low mortgage rates kicked off a nationwide homebuying spree in 2020. That drove home inventory to all-time lows, and the market broke down as contractors were slow to bring more houses to market.Price growth <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/housing-market-prices-july-home-shortage-affordability-crisis-turning-point-2021-9">is cooling</a> on a monthly basis as the pandemic housing mania subsides, but the barrier to homeownership is now permanently higher.Other solutions exist for shaping a more inclusive housing market. Congress is pushing for a historic construction drive, hoping to solve the shortage <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-housing-market-crisis-plan-home-construction-affordability-price-surges-2021-9">with an onslaught of new homes</a>.At least one other California mayor is on the side of the YIMBYs. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín, who once opposed denser zoning, is now among <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/housing-market-crisis-jesse-arreguin-mayor-berkeley-residential-zoning-homes-2021-9">the most vocal pro-housing officials in the US</a>. He told Insider in September that "single-family zoning was established on a foundation of racism in Berkeley and it's the basis upon which our zoning is built."

A former Beverly Hills mayor is so committed to keeping home prices high that he said the freedom to block dense housing deserves to be protected like gay marriage

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Well-known Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Payman Simoni died on Friday from a brain hemorrhage potentially related to COVID-19. He was 50.</li><li>Simoni, who appeared on the television show "The Doctors," may have contracted the virus from a patient while giving her lip injections.</li><li>The doctor was wearing a mask during the procedure, his longtime friend said.</li></ul>Beverly Hills plastic surgeon <a href="https://beverlypress.com/2021/01/beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon-dies-of-covid-19/">Dr. Payman Simoni died from a brain hemorrhage</a> on Friday after testing positive for <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>, his longtime friend Katy Amiri-Younesi told <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/01/11/family-devastated-by-covid-death-of-beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon/" target="_blank" title="(opens new window)" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>.Prior to his death, Simoni, 50, had performed a routine <a href="https://www.insider.com/why-plastic-surgeon-open-business-refuses-to-do-lip-fillers-2020-5">lip-filler injection</a> for a patient while wearing a mask, Amiri-Younesi told <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/01/11/family-devastated-by-covid-death-of-beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon/" target="_blank" title="(opens new window)" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>. A few days later, the same patient called to tell Simoni she'd tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-are-the-symptoms-of-covid-19-2020-5">coronavirus</a>."He was wearing a mask at all times," Amiri-Younesi told CBS <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>. "He was a physician. And he took all the protocols."The patient had her temperature taken and was cleared before her appointment, <a href="https://people.com/health/los-angeles-plastic-surgeon-dies-of-covid-after-giving-lip-fillers/">People.com</a><a href="https://people.com/health/los-angeles-plastic-surgeon-dies-of-covid-after-giving-lip-fillers/"> reported</a>.After getting the patient's call, Simoni got a COVID-19 test on December 6 and tested positive, Amiri-Younesi told <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/01/11/family-devastated-by-covid-death-of-beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon/">CBS News.</a> A week later his <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> started to decline, and he needed to be put on a ventilator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center due to difficulty breathing."The shock is that he was so perfectly healthy," Amiri-Younesi told CBS News. "He's a doctor. I called him when I had COVID. He was instructing me what to do."Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-its-like-at-dr-miami-drive-thru-botox-clinic-2020-6">What it's like to go to a drive-thru Botox clinic, with masks, needles, and temperature checks</a>City Councilman John Mirisch told the <a href="https://beverlypress.com/2021/01/beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon-dies-of-covid-19/">Beverly Press</a> that it was a mistake to let cosmetic procedures resume in the city."We should err on the side of caution," Mirisch said. "Nobody needs Botox in the middle of a pandemic."He added: "It's a tragedy if someone had to die because of that. Lip fillers are not worth dying for."Simoni, a well-known Beverly Hills surgeon who appeared on the show "The Doctors," was eventually put into a medically-induced coma due to his worsening condition. He died from a brain hemorrhage while in the coma, according to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/10/beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon-dies-covid-patient-cough/">TMZ.</a>There are <a href="http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/data/index.htm">11,366 new cases of COVID-19 in Los Angeles</a> this week, according to the county's public health department. <a href="https://www.insider.com/once-a-model-california-now-struggles-to-tame-covid-19-2021-1">Los Angeles County</a> is the first US county to surpass 1 million COVID-19 cases, with a total of 1,014,662 as of Monday.Mayor Lester Friedman told the <a href="https://beverlypress.com/2021/01/beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon-dies-of-covid-19/">Beverly Press</a> that elective procedures, which lip fillers are typically considered, were <a href="http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/docs/LimitingElectiveProceduresCOV.pdf">allowed since April 28 under state and county guidelines,</a> under the condition that doctors and patients would use their judgment to determine if such procedures were essential."We specifically did not recommend [cosmetic surgery], nor did the state or the county," Friedman told the Beverly Press. Friedman told the Beverly Press that it hadn't been proven that Simoni had contracted the virus from his patient during a procedure.

A plastic surgeon died from COVID-19 after giving lip filler to a patient who later tested positive for the virus

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Mario Tama/Getty ImagesPeople ride Bird shared dockless electric scooters along Venice Beach.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/bird" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bird</a> is suing Beverly Hills, California after the city banned its scooters.</li><li>The company said in the suit that it's paid more than $100,000 in fines to retrieve impounded scooters.</li><li>"Beverly Hills has gone to the extreme," the lawsuit says, and claims the ordinance violates state law. </li></ul>When the city of Beverly Hills, California approved a ban on "shared mobility devices," or scooters, in August, it quickly began impounding the vehicles throughout the city.After being hit with "more than $100,000" in fines from 950 citations from the new ordinance, scooter startup Bird has filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming "Beverly Hills has gone to the extreme" and is violating the California vehicle code by banning its scooters within its city limits.In a complaint filed November 1, Bird said the city council's passage of a six-month ban was a "hasty and deceptive proceeding riddled with violations of California's open-meeting, public participation, and environmental laws." The company also noted how the city has fought tooth and nail to fight against a purple line subway extension, "preferring instead to keep transit riders in communities to the east from reaching Beverly hills."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Court documentsOne example of an impound notice from Bird's lawsuit</div></div></div>A spokesperson for the city did not respond to a request for comment.In their discussions at a special meeting in July, city council members were furious at how Bird and other scooter companies launched without any warning."We need to make this as difficult and as punitive as we can," Mayor Julian Gold said at the meeting. "I am beyond offended by the manner in which this was rolled out. I think it's great technology and maybe it is the right thing, but to intentionally impose on cities the risks that you as organizations have done in an effort to make profit, as far as I'm concerned, is unconscionable."Bird says many of the reasons cited by city council members are false."The city council argued that scooters are 'unregulated," the suit reads, again citing the California vehicle code "This is plainly untrue … if the were unregulated, the solution would be regulation, which was on the agenda for the Special Meeting, but now what the city council actually considered."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lime-hires-louis-vuitton-exec-shift-lifestyle-brand-2018-11">Lime wants to be more than a scooter startup - and it's hired an executive from one of the world's most well-known luxury fashion companies to help it get there</a>There was one dissenter on the city council: Vice Mayor John Mirisch, who said scooters and electric vehicles aren't disruptive on their own."What is new is the combination and what is perhaps disruptive is the implementation," he said. "A lot of these accidents that are waiting to happen is because people aren't following the rules of the road - they do exist."Bird says it has been "irreparably harmed" by the City's "unlawful actions" and requests in its suit that the court award it damages, reimbursement for impound fees, and costs of the lawsuit. A hearing is set for February 2019. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-shouldnt-be-afraid-to-fly-2016-10">Why you shouldn't be afraid to fly, according to a pilot with over 20 years of experience </a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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