Land Use, Sustainability Resilience Committee Meeting
June 12, 2023
AB/SB Bill No. Topic Impact General Overview Departments Impacted Action Needed Effective Date
AB 2011 Housing &
Zoning High
Requires streamlined minsterial approval for 100% affordable or certain mixed-income housing projects on land zoned for commerical, office, retail, or parking if specific conditions are met, including labor standards. Rezoning of the site is not required.
Planning
Identify commercial corridors, potentially adopt
implementing ordinance, adjust development
standards.
Provide comments for applicants who submit
applications under AB 2011 within specific time frame.
07/01/2023
SB 6
Housing &
Zoning High
Allows a housing project as an allowable use on a parcel zoned for commercial office, retail, or parking if specified conditions are met, including conditions pertaining to density, public noticing, project size and location, and more. Rezoning of the site is not required.
Planning Potentially adopt an implementing ordinance. 07/01/2023 AB 2097
Parking
Requirements High
Prohibits public agencies from imposing minimum parking requirements on residential, commercial or most other types of development located within one-half mile of major transit corridor unless any portion is designated for use as a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other transient lodging.
Planning Identify affected areas and update GIS database.
Potentially adopt an implementing ordinance. 01/01/2023 AB 2234
Permit
Streamlining High
Requires that the City process post-entitlement applications (such as building permits, grading permits, etc.) within specified timeframes and publish examples of approved applications for different types of housing projects.
Public Works,
Building & Safety,
Public Utilities, Fire
Publish an example of a complete, approved
application and an example of a complete set of
postentitlement phase permits for at least five types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction,
including, but not limited to, ADUs, duplex, multifamily, mixed use, and townhome.
01/01/2024
SB 897
Accessory
Dwelling Units
(ADU)
Medium
Clarifies and expands ADU law related to fire safety, projects near transit and objective development standards. Increases height limit to 20 feet for detached and 25 feet for attached ADUs.
Planning Update ADU ordinance. 01/01/2023
AB 682
Density Bonus Medium
Expands density bonus law to include shared housing or co-housing buildings that include qualifying affordable housing units. Makes other minor additions/clarifications to remove ambiguity in density bonus law.
Planning Update Density Bonus ordinance. 01/01/2023
AB 2334
Density Bonus Medium
A jurisdiction must allow a height increase and cannot impose controls on density if a 100% affordable housing development qualifies for density bonus concessions and is in a very low vehicle travel area, as defined.
Planning Update Density Bonus ordinance. 01/01/2023
AB 2295
Housing &
Zoning Medium
Deems a housing development project of at least 10 units an allowable use on land owned by a local school district or county office of education, if the development meets certain conditions.
Planning None 01/01/2023
SB 886
Housing &
Zoning Medium
Exempts housing development projects from CEQA if carried out by a public university on land owned by the university and certain environmental and location requirements are met.
Planning None 01/01/2023
SB 649 Housing &
Zoning Medium
Allows a local government to adopt a local tenant preference ordinance, which would allow units of affordable housing using the housing tax credit program to be reserved for local tenants at risk of displacement
Housing Authority Consider adoption of local tenant preference program. 01/01/2023
- Constitutional
Amendment
Housing &
Zoning Medium
Adds a measure to the 2024 ballot which if passed, will repeal Article 34 of the California Constitution, which requires development, construction, or acquisition of publicly-funded low-rent housing projects to be approved by a majority of voters in a city/county.
Housing Authority None -
California Housing Legislation Effective 2023
Land Use, Sustainability Resilience Committee Meeting
June 12, 2023
AB/SB Bill No. Topic Impact General Overview Departments Impacted Action Needed Effective Date
California Housing Legislation Effective 2023
AB 2221
Accessory
Dwelling Units
(ADU)
Low Clarifies and expands ADU law related to detached ADUs, timeframe requirements and setback requirements. Planning Update ADU ordinance. 01/01/2023 AB 1743
Annual
Progress
Reporting
Low
Requires planning agencies to indicate if housing development applications submitted are subject to a ministerial or discretionary review process within the Housing Element portion of the Annual Progress Report (APR).
Planning Collect data. 01/01/2023
AB 2094
Annual
Progress
Reporting
Low
Requires planning agencies to include in its APR the locality’s progress in meeting the needs of extremely low-income households, defined as households who earn less than 30% of area median income (AMI).
Planning Collect data. 01/01/2023
AB 2653
Annual
Progress
Reporting
Low
Requires planning agencies to include in its APR the number of all new housing units, the number of housing units demolished, and data from all projects approved to receive a density bonus, as specified.
Planning Collect data. 01/01/2023
AB 1551 Density Bonus Low
Reinstates a density bonus law provision to allow commercial developers a development bonus when they enter into an
agreement to provide affordable housing.
Planning None 01/01/2023
AB 1695
Housing &
Zoning Low
Requires HCD to state in any notice of funding availability for an affordable multifamily housing loan program that adaptive reuse of a property for affordable housing purposes is an eligible activity Housing Authority None 01/01/2023
AB 1991 Housing &
Zoning Low
Allows hotels and motels to provide housing to people enrolled in a shelter program, as specified, for longer than 30 days without establishing tenancy.
Office of
Homeless Solutions None 01/01/2023
AB 2006
Housing &
Zoning Low
Requires HCD, Cal HFA, and CTCAC to enter into a memorandum of understanding to streamline the compliance monitoring of affordable multifamily rental housing developments that are subject to a regulatory agreement with more than one of these entities Housing Authority None 01/01/2024
AB 2483
Housing &
Zoning Low
Requires HCD to incentivize the development of affordable housing units set aside for individuals experiencing homelessness or eligible to receive specified services through the Multifamily Housing Program Housing Authority None 01/01/2023
SB 561
Housing &
Zoning Low
Requires Department of General Services (DGS) and HCD to identify and evaluate the feasibility of developing state surplus land which can be used for affordable housing development.
Housing Authority None 01/01/2023
AB 2339
Housing
Element Low
Requires jurisdictions to demonstrate sufficient capacity on the sites to meet the identified need for emergency shelters and requires that sites are identified for shelters, interim housing and emergency shelters.
Planning For the next Housing Element cycle, identify zones and sites available for emergency housing. 01/01/2023
AB 2668
Permit
Streamlining Low Clarifies provisions of the ministerial, streamlined approval process for affordable housing development created by SB 35 of 2017. Planning None 01/01/2023 AB 1933 Property
Taxation Low
Expands welfare tax exemption to eligible nonprofit corporations that build and rehabilitate affordable housing units for sale, subject to certain limitations, to low-income families, as defined.
Housing Authority None 01/01/2023