AB 1485

State Land Use Enacted Legislation

Bill #	State	Year	Party	Topic
AB 1485	CA	2019	D	Affordable housing incentives and financing, Building code reform, By-right zoning, Deadlines, Density bonus, Environmental review, Fair distribution of housing, Inclusionary zoning, Lands near transit, Manufactured Housing, Minimum parking requirements, Planning for climate adaptation and hazards, Planning Requirements, Streamline application, Streamline hearings, Written findings, burden and standard of proof

Provided by Furman

Summary

Expands SB 35 streamlined ministerial approval for Bay Area developments by allowing projects with 10+ units to qualify by dedicating 20% of units to households at or below 120% AMI, with an average income at or below 100% AMI, rather than the standard 10% at or below 80% AMI threshold.
Clarifies that a development is consistent with objective planning standards if substantial evidence would allow a reasonable person to reach that conclusion, and excludes underground space from the two-thirds residential square footage calculation.
Provides that approvals not meeting the 50% affordability threshold are valid for three years from final action or final judgment, and remain valid while vertical construction is in progress.
Expands CEQA exemptions to cover actions by state agencies, local governments, and BART to lease, convey, or encumber land, and to approve improvements on that land, when related to a streamlined affordable housing development.
Requires local governments to issue subsequent permits if applications substantially comply with the approved development, and prohibits imposing procedures on those permits that don’t apply to non-streamlined developments.
Modifies the definition of “subsidized” for workforce requirement purposes to remove the permanent affordability requirement for very low and lower income households.

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