SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Demonstrators across California, including in San Diego, are protesting Senate Bill 79, legislation that would allow developers to build large-scale apartment complexes near major transit stops.

Opponents say the bill, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would give developers more access to single-family neighborhoods while doing little to address affordability. The measure, which narrowly passed the Senate earlier this year, is scheduled for a vote in the Assembly next month.

In San Diego’s Linda Vista neighborhood, homeowner Lorri Freitas said she fears the bill will change the character of her community.

“It’s a really lovely single-family neighborhood, very walkable, everybody walks their dogs. People know each other,” Freitas said. “But t

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