Starting Jan 1, 2026:
Glendale City Council will coerce homeowners into installing electric heaters, and they’ll offset some of that cost by making low-income apartment renters pay for it with fees.
We’re all facing astronomical summer electricity bills because of running our air-conditioning. Glendale wants to make it unaffordable all year.
Your home energy bills are generally cheaper in the winter because most homes use gas furnaces. But Glendale Environmental Councilmembers Elen Asatryan and Dan Brotman want to force homeowners into using electric heaters because even a small amount of fossil fuel use on your part is unacceptable.
Now, they have chabnged the building codes to require additional UNNECESSARY repairs — insulating the attic, replacing ducting, testing fan efficiency — if you want to keep your gas furnace.
Worst of all, they have promised incentives that are funded by the Public Benefits Charge, which is a fee paid by ALL Glendale residents, regardless of income and dwelling type. So low-income apartment renters will be funding capital improvements for higher-income homeowners.
The alternative would be to install an electric heater without having to do the other unnecessary repairs. They are giving you a choice between bad and worse.
And that is what they have done to Glendale: take it from bad to worse.
Send an email below in less than 10 seconds to let City Council know that you are interested in attending the GLENDALE ISSUES TOWN HALL where we will say NO INCUMBENTS and plan how to reverse all of their harmful ordinances.
Tell them that you OPPOSE their overreach into our homes. Life is expensive enough without more of their mandates.
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