BILL NUMBER: AB 343	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2011

   An act to add Section 33330.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to redevelopment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 343, as introduced, Atkins. Redevelopment plans: environmental
goals.
   The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of
redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects
of blight, as defined, in those communities and requires those
agencies to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and approve a
redevelopment plan for each project area. Existing law requires,
among other things, that each redevelopment plan be consistent with
the community's general plan.
   Existing law requires or authorizes metropolitan planning
organizations, local governments, and local legislative bodies, to
adopt greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, rezoning activities,
and traffic mitigation measures for transit priority projects,
respectively, in order to attain specified climate, air quality, and
energy conservation goals.
   This bill would require each redevelopment plan to consider and
identify strategies for how redevelopment projects will help attain
the climate, air quality, and energy conservation goals or applicable
regional greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 33330.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   33330.5.  Every redevelopment plan shall consider and identify
strategies for how redevelopment projects will help attain the
climate, air quality, and energy conservation goals identified in
Chapter 728 of the Statutes of 2008 or the applicable regional
greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.