Bill Text: CA SB1421 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mobilehomes: resident-owned mobilehome parks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 492, Statutes of 2012. [SB1421 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1421-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1421	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Correa

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 65913 of the Government Code, relating to
housing.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1421, as introduced, Correa. Affordable housing.
   Existing law restricts a local agency from disapproving an
affordable housing development project, as prescribed. With respect
to that law, legislative findings and declarations state that there
is a severe shortage of affordable housing and that changes in the
law, which are designed to, among other things, expedite the local
and state residential development process, are needed to encourage
the development of new housing.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
legislative findings and declarations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 65913 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   65913.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there exists a
severe shortage of affordable housing, especially for persons and
families of low and moderate income, and that there is an immediate
need to encourage the development of new housing, not only through
the provision of financial assistance, but also through changes in
law designed to do all of the following:
   (1) Expedite the local and state residential development process.
   (2)  Assure   Ensure  that local
governments zone sufficient land at densities high enough for
production of affordable housing.
   (3)  Assure   Ensure  that local
governments make a diligent effort through the administration of land
use and development controls and the provision of regulatory
concessions and incentives to significantly reduce housing
development costs and thereby facilitate the development of
affordable housing, including housing for elderly persons and
families, as defined by Section 50067 of the Health and Safety Code.
   These changes in the law are consistent with the responsibility of
local government to adopt the program required by subdivision (c) of
Section 65583.
   (b) The Legislature further finds and declares that the costs of
new housing developments have been increased, in part, by the
existing permit process and by existing land use regulations and that
vitally needed housing developments have been halted or rendered
infeasible despite the benefits to the public health, safety, and
welfare of those developments and despite the absence of adverse
environmental impacts. It is, therefore, necessary to enact this
chapter and to amend existing statutes  which  
that  govern housing development so as to provide greater
encouragement for local and state governments to approve needed and
sound housing developments.