AB 2108 Summary

• Amends the definition of "adequate progress" for flood protection systems to include critical features being planned or designed, not just under construction.

• Authorizes the Central Valley Flood Protection Board to determine that preconstruction planning or design activities constitute adequate progress, with determinations expiring after 18 months unless the system progresses to construction or adequate progress is reconfirmed.

• Changes development agreement and permit approval requirements in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley to require only that the local flood management agency "is making" adequate progress (rather than "has made" adequate progress) towards a flood protection system.

• Narrows the restriction on discretionary permits and entitlements to apply only to buildings that would result in more than a 50 percent increase in allowed occupancy, removing previous blanket restrictions on all discretionary permits in flood hazard zones.

• Removes the requirement that property in undetermined risk areas must meet the urban level of flood protection as a condition for development approvals in most contexts.