Bill Text: CA AB596 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Community planning grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB596 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB596-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 596	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 65040.13 to the Government Code, relating to
land use.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 596, as introduced, Evans. Land use: model-home, form-based
ordinances.
   Existing law provides that the Office of Planning and Research
within the Governor's office serves as the state's comprehensive
planning agency in the formulation, evaluation, and updating of,
among other things, long-range goals and policies for land use,
population growth and distribution, urban expansion, development,
open space, resource preservation and utilization, air and water
quality, and other factors that shape statewide development patterns
and significantly influence the quality of the state's environment.
   This bill would require the Office of Planning and Research to
develop an urban model-home, form-based ordinance and a rural
model-home, form-based ordinance that a local agency can use as a
planning tool to revitalize and preserve communities in compliance
with smart-growth principles. The ordinances would be required to
include minimum requirements or parameters that are clear and
easy-to-follow.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 65040.13 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   65040.13.  The office shall develop an urban model-home,
form-based ordinance and a rural model-home, form-based ordinance
that a local agency can use as a planning tool to revitalize and
preserve communities in compliance with smart-growth principles. The
ordinances shall include minimum requirements or parameters that are
clear and easy-to-follow.