AB 2135, as introduced, Ting. Affordable housing.
Existing law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and requires that the plan include a land use element that addresses housing. Existing law states legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for affordable housing in connection with local authority to approve housing developments.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the legislative findings and declarations regarding affordable housing, as described above.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 65913 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
(a) The Legislature finds and declares thatbegin delete there existsend delete
4 a severe shortage of affordable housingbegin insert existsend insert, especially for
5persons and families of low and moderate income, and thatbegin delete there an immediate needbegin insert existsend insert to encourage the development of new
6isend delete
P2 1housing, not only through the provision of financial assistance,
2but also through changes in law designed to do all of the following:
3(1) Expedite the local and state residential development process.
4(2) Assure that local governments zone sufficient land at
5densities high enough for production of affordable housing.
6(3) Assure that local governments make a diligent effort through
7the administration of land use and development controls and the
8provision of regulatory concessions and incentives to significantly
9reduce housing development costs and thereby facilitate the
10development of affordable housing, including housing for elderly
11persons and families, as defined by Section 50067 of the Health
12and Safety Code.
13These changes in the law are consistent with the responsibility
14of local government to adopt the program required by subdivision
15(c) of Section 65583.
16(b) The Legislature further finds and declares that the costs of
17new housing developments have been increased, in part, by the
18existing permit process and by existing land use regulations and
19that vitally needed housing developments have been halted or
20rendered infeasible despite the benefits to the public health, safety,
21and welfare of those developments and despite the absence of
22adverse environmental impacts. It is, therefore, necessary to enact
23this chapter and to amend existing statutes which govern housing
24development so as to provide greater encouragement for local and
25state governments to approve needed and sound housing
26developments.
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