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State Land Use Enacted Legislation
| Bill # | State | Year | Party | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SB 341 |
CA | 2023 | D | Affordable housing incentives and financing, Environmental review, Funding, Planning Requirements, Pro-Housing Designation, Streamline application |
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Summary
- Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. It requires the department to designate jurisdictions as prohousing in accordance with emergency regulations adopted by the department.
- Existing law awards jurisdictions that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions and that are providing additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs, including the Infill Incentive Grant Program of 2007.
- Existing law establishes the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, which requires the department to establish and administer a grant program to allocate funds to eligible applicants to fund capital improvement projects that are important to facilitate the development of, a qualifying infill project, qualifying infill area, or catalytic qualifying infill area pursuant to specified requirements.
- This bill would add the qualifying infill area and catalytic qualifying infill area portions of the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019 as one of the specified state programs for which additional points or preference is awarded.
- Adds “Facilitation of the conversion or redevelopment of commercial properties into housing, including the adoption of adaptive reuse ordinances or other mechanisms that reduce barriers for these conversions.” to the definition of “Prohousing local policies”
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Bill Title
Housing development
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