AB 2713, as amended, Chiu. Land use: local ordinances: energy systems.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a general plan for the physical development of the county or city and authorizes the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by counties and cities.
Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to approve an application for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations, as defined, through the issuance of specified permits unless the city or county makes specified written findings. Existing law provides that the implementation of consistent statewide standards to achieve the timely and cost-effective installation of electric vehicle charging stations is a matter of statewide concern.
This bill would, on or before September 30, 2017, for a city, county, or city and county with a population of 200,000 or more residents, or January 31, 2018, for a city, county, or city and county with a population of less than 200,000 resident, require the city, county, or city and county to make all documentation and forms associated with the permitting of advanced energy storage, as defined, available on a publicly accessible Internet Web site, as specified. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to allow for the electronic submittal of a permit application and associated documentation, as specified. The bill would prohibit the calculation of a fee associated with the permitting or inspection of an advanced energy storage installation from being calculated based on the value of the installation or any other factor not directly associated with the cost to issue the permit.
The bill would require the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, on or beforebegin delete September 30, 2017,end deletebegin insert
January 1, 2019,end insert to create a California Energy Storage Permitting Guidebook, as specified.
By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 65850.8 is added to the Government
2Code, to read:
(a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the
4following:
5(1) It is the policy of the state to promote and encourage the
6installation of advanced energy storage and to limit obstacles to
7its use in order to increase the reliability, safety, and resilience of
8the state’s electrical system.
9(2) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the applicable
10state agencies, including the Governor’s Office of Planning and
11Research, extend and expand the existing initiative being conducted
12by the Public Utilities Commission to further note best practices
13in the safe permitting of advanced energy storage.
That effort
14should ultimately produce an Advanced Energy Storage Permitting
P3 1Guidebook, taking advantage of the efforts and lessons learned in
2creating the streamlined permitting processes and modeling in part
3after the California Solar Permitting Guidebook.
4(b) On or before September 30, 2017, every city, county, or city
5and county with a population of 200,000 or more residents, and
6on or before January 31, 2018, every city, county, or city and
7county with a population of less than 200,000 residents,
8 shall make all documentation and forms associated with the
9permitting of advanced energy storage available on a publicly
10accessible Internet Web site, if the city, county, or city and county
11has an Internet Web site. The city, county, or city and county shall
12allow for electronic
submission of a permit application and
13associated documentation, and shall authorize the electronic
14signature on all forms, applications, and other documentation in
15lieu of a wet signature by an applicant.
16(c) Any fee charged for the permitting or inspection of an
17advanced energy storage installation shall not be calculated based
18on the value of the installation or any other factor not directly
19associated with the cost to issue the permit.
20(d) On or beforebegin delete September 30, 2017,end deletebegin insert January 1, 2019,end insert the
21Governor’s Office of Planning and Research shall, in consultation
22with local building officials, the State Fire
Marshall, the storage
23industry, the Public Utilities Commission, and other stakeholders,
24and through review of any existing streamlined permitting practices
25used by cities, counties, or city and counties, create a California
26Energy Storage Permitting Guidebook modeled substantially on
27the California Solar Permitting Guidebook.
28(e) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the
29following meanings:
30(1) “Advanced energy storage” means an energy storage system,
31as defined in Section 2835 of the Public Utilities Code, as well as
32an energy storage system that is designed to provide backup energy
33services in the event of a grid outage, that is limited tobegin delete eitherend deletebegin insert
bothend insert
34 of the following:
35(A) Electrochemical energy storage in nonventing packages.
36(B) Customer sited installations.
37(2) “Customer sited” means the system is interconnected to the
38electrical grid through an existing retail customer interconnection.
39(3) “Electronic submittal” means the utilization of one or more
40of the following:
P4 1(A) Email.
2(B) The Internet.
3(C) Facsimile.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
5Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
6a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
7charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
8level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section
917556 of the Government Code.
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