SB 894 Summary

• Repeals the 3-month requirement to challenge municipal incorporation, annexation, and consolidation proceedings.

• Establishes mediation as an option for superior court actions involving development projects, environmental quality decisions, permit streamlining, fees, redevelopment plans, zoning decisions, and airport land use commission decisions.

• Authorizes various special districts (county service areas, community services districts, mosquito abatement districts, fire protection districts, recreation and park districts, and transit/air quality districts) to issue securitized limited obligation notes through December 31, 2014.

• Increases maximum change order amounts for county construction contracts from $150,000 to $210,000 and establishes change order authority for county waterworks districts and Los Angeles County Flood Control District.

• Updates statutory language to replace "councilman/councilmen" with "council member" throughout Government Code and clarifies that community services district board service is compatible with municipal advisory council membership.