BILL NUMBER: AB 2425	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to add Section 65584.9 to the Government Code, relating to
land use.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2425, as introduced, Hagman. Land use: City of La Habra
Heights: regional housing need allocation.
   The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city and county to adopt
a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a
housing element that is required to identify adequate sites for
housing and to make adequate provision for the existing and projected
needs of all economic segments of the community. That law requires
the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation
with each council of governments, to determine each region's existing
and projected regional housing need, as specified, and also requires
the council of governments to adopt a final regional housing need
plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need for all
income levels to each city or county, as specified.
   This bill would exempt the City of La Habra Heights, in its next
housing element planning period, from the allocation of regional
housing need.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the City of La Habra Heights.

   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 65584.9 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   65584.9.  Notwithstanding any contrary law, the City of La Habra
Heights, in its next housing element planning period after the
effective date of the act that added this section, shall be exempt
from the allocation of regional housing need.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique lack of availability of locations for
affordable housing within the City of La Habra Heights.