BILL NUMBER: AB 2500	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Daly

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act relating to land use.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2500, as introduced, Daly. Land use.
   Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or
county to prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan,
and requires the general plan to include certain mandatory elements,
including a housing element. That law also requires the housing
element, in turn, to include, among other things, an assessment of
housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant
to the meeting of those needs. That law further requires the
Department of Housing and Community Development to review the draft
of the housing element or draft amendment of the housing element
prior to its adoption by the planning agency for a city or county
and, in written findings, determine whether the draft substantially
complies with the legal requirements for a housing element.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would authorize the department to rescind the
adoption of a housing element.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently
amend this measure to include provisions that would authorize the
Department of Housing and Community Development to rescind the
adoption of a housing element.