BILL ANALYSIS SB 1483 Page 1 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 Page 2 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