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                                                                  SB 1483
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          Date of Hearing:  June 30, 2010

                       ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
                                Cameron Smyth, Chair
                     SB 1483 (Wright) - As Amended:  June 3, 2010

           SENATE VOTE  :  34-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  Multifamily improvement districts.

           SUMMARY  :  Extends the sunset on the Multifamily Improvement  
          District (MID) Law from January 1, 2012 to January 1, 2022.

           EXISTING LAW  enacted the MID Law to provide until January 1,  
          2012, for the establishment of MIDs within a city or county to  
          levy assessments on residential rental properties within the  
          district for the purpose of financing certain improvements and  
          promoting certain activities beneficial to those properties.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  None

           COMMENTS  :   

          1)SB 1404 (Soto), Chapter 526, Statutes of 2004, enacted the MID  
            Law to provide until January 1, 2012, for the establishment of  
            MIDs within a city or county to levy assessments on  
            residential rental properties within the district for the  
            purpose of financing certain improvements and promoting  
            certain activities beneficial to those properties.  

          2)According to the sponsor, the Apartment Association,  
            California Southern Cities, one MID is successfully operating  
            in the City of Long Beach, commonly referred to as "Andy  
            Street Multi-Family Improvement District".  The owners want to  
            continue the improvement district because they have seen  
            measurable and tangible results reducing crime.  In a few  
            years the district has been operational, police service calls  
            have been reduced from 480 to 210 in a fiscal year.  The  
            property owners do not want to see a wildly successful crime  
            prevention program fail because the Legislature did not act to  
            extend the sunset date.  Further, the City of Long Beach has  
            identified another improvement district known as the  
            "Pine-Locust" project; the area is two-blocks long, has 124  
            property owners who are working in a cooperative manner to  
            establish a new MID  








                                                                 SB 1483
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            SB 1483 extends the sunset on the MID law an additional 10  
            years.  

           3)Support Arguments  :  With the effectiveness seen through the  
            implementation of the Andy Street MID and the desire of other  
            cities to establish MIDs it would behoove the Legislature to  
            extend the sunset on this program.  

             Opposition Arguments  :  None at this time. 

           


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          Apartment Association, CA Southern Cities [SPONSOR]
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file 

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Katie Kolitsos / L. GOV. / (916)  
          319-3958