SB 765 - NYU Furman Center

State Land Use Enacted Legislation

Bill #	State	Year	Party	Topic
SB 765	CA	2018	D	Affordable housing incentives and financing, By-right zoning, Environmental review, Fair distribution of housing, Minimum parking requirements

Provided by Furman

Summary

Makes the California Environmental Quality Act inapplicable to government action to lease, convey, or encumber land for the purpose of constructing a homeless shelter or to the provision of financial assistance to a homeless shelter.
Emphasizes that the current amendment is declaratory of existing law.
Mandates that local governments require the recording of covenants or restrictions on each parcel or unit of real property included in developments committed to provide lower income housing units that are subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process prior to the issuance of building permits.
Requires that affordable housing developments qualifying for a streamlined approval process be consistent with objective subdivision standards.
Exempts government action to lease, convey, or encumber land from the California Environmental Quality Act if for the construction of affordable housing for persons of very low, low, or moderate income that is subject to a streamlined approval process.
Requires the use of a skilled and trained workforce for developments subject to a streamlined affordable housing approval process if the residential component of such developments contain any market rate units.
Specifies that local governments are prohibited from imposing automobile parking standards for an affordable housing development subject to a streamlined approval process.
Requires affordable housing developments subject to a streamlined approval process to include a minimum percentage of below market rate housing if its locality’s latest housing production report indicates that the locality issued fewer building permits for units of housing affordable to very low income or low income households than were required by the regional housing needs assessment.
Exempts applications for a subdivision from the California Environmental Quality Act if the development consistent with all objective subdivision standards in the local subdivision ordinance and either:

The development is financed or funded through low-income tax credits and subject to a prevailing wage requirement, or
The development is subject to a prevailing wage requirement and a skilled and trained workforce requirement.

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