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                                                                  AB 2348
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          Date of Hearing:   May 5, 2004

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                   Judy Chu, Chair

                   AB 2348 (Mullin) - As Amended:  April 16, 2004 

          Policy Committee:                              Local  
          GovernmentVote:9-0
                        Housing and Community Development     8-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          Yes    Reimbursable:              Yes

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes numerous changes to the provisions of housing  
          element law.  Specifically, this bill:

          1)Provides uniform content requirements for land inventory to  
            ensure local governments provide sufficient detail and  
            information regarding the adequacy of sites to address the  
            regional housing need. 

          2)Expands the relocation assistance that local governments must  
            make available to persons displaced by the rehabilitation of  
            sites.

          3)Requires HCD to accept certain densities as appropriate to  
            accommodate a jurisdiction's share of the regional housing  
            need for lower income households. 

          4)Revises the parking requirements for developments qualifying  
            for a density bonus.

          5)Makes other, related changes to housing element law.

           FISCAL EFFECT
           
          1)Unknown state-reimbursable mandated costs, probably in excess  
            of $150,000 annually, for expanded relocation assistance  
            requirements on local governments.

          2)Minor, absorbable workload costs to HCD.









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           COMMENTS  

          1)Background  .  Housing element law requires local government to  
            appropriately zone sites to accommodate their share of the  
            regional housing need, as determined by their Council of  
            Governments (COG) or HCD. Current law requires housing  
            elements to include a land inventory identifying sites  
            suitable for residential development by income level. The  
            purpose of the land inventory is to determine whether  
            additional governmental actions are needed to provide  
            sufficient sites with appropriate zoning, development  
            standards and infrastructure capacity to address the entire  
            regional need by income level. 

           2)Purpose  .  This bill provides uniform content requirements for  
            the land inventory to ensure that developers have access to  
            sufficient information regarding the adequacy of sites.  This  
            bill also expands the relocation assistance that local  
            governments must make available to persons displaced by the  
            rehabilitation of sites.



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Stephen Shea / APPR. / (916) 319-2081