Bill Text: CA SB405 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Planning and zoning: housing element: inventory of sites: regional housing need.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB405 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB405-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 26, 2023 |
Introduced by Senator Cortese |
February 09, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill, for a housing element or amendment adopted as part of the seventh planning period, would require the planning agency to provide notice to the owner of a site included in the above-described inventory that the site is included in that inventory, if
the owner’s identity and contact information is known, as specified. If the site owner notifies the planning agency or the department that the owner does not intend to develop at least 80% of the number of units for the site, determined as described above, during the current planning period, the bill would provide that the site would not be considered a site that can be developed to meet the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, except as specified. The bill would require the planning agency to make a reasonable effort to identify an owner and the owner’s contact information and to determine the intent of the owner to develop the site. The bill would require that the information be an important factor for the department in determining whether the housing element identifies sufficient sites to meet the jurisdiction share of regional housing. The bill would require the department to amend specified standards, forms, and definitions to implement these provisions.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)(1)For a housing element or amendment adopted as part of the seventh planning period, if the owner’s identity and contact information is known, the planning agency shall provide to an owner of a site included in the inventory of land suitable for residential development developed pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 65583 and subdivision (b) Section 65583.1 notice that the site is included in the inventory and a link to where the inventory can be found on the local government’s internet website, at the same time the planning agency makes its first draft revision available for public comment pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 65585.
(2)A planning agency shall make a reasonable effort to identify an owner, described in paragraph (1), and obtain the owner’s contact information.
(b)If before the department reports its findings pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 65585, an owner, described in subdivision (a), notifies the planning agency or the department that the owner does not intend to develop at least 80 percent of the number of units for the site determined pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 65583.2 during the current planning period, except for the number of units specified in the notification, the site shall not be considered a site that can be developed to meet the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing needs.
(c)(1)A planning agency shall make a reasonable
effort to determine the intent of an owner, described in subdivision (a), to develop the site and if any developer is interested in developing the site.
(2)The information in paragraph (1) shall be an important factor in the department’s determination whether the housing element identifies sufficient sites to meet the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need pursuant to Section 65884.
(d)The department shall amend the standards, forms, and definitions described in subdivision (b) of Section 65583.3 to implement this section.