CA AB2267

Provides streamlined judicial review until January 1, 2024, for CEQA challenges to the City of Santa Rosa's amendments to its Downtown Station Area Specific Plan that increase building height, density, parking flexibility, housing diversity, or redesignate city-owned parcels for housing development.

Establishes "RED Area Plans" (Renewal Enterprise District) eligible for expedited 270-day judicial review if they require residential development at minimum 20 units per acre near transit, mandate 20 percent affordable housing (45 years for ownership, 55 years for rental), and achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Creates "RED Leadership Development Projects" for city or county-owned parcels in Santa Rosa's downtown or transit areas, exempting qualifying residential/mixed-use projects from CEQA if they meet density, affordability (20 percent), transportation efficiency (15 percent better than comparable projects), prevailing wage, and net-zero greenhouse gas requirements.

Prohibits RED Leadership Development Projects from demolishing affordable housing, rent-controlled housing, recently occupied housing, or historic structures.

All provisions sunset on January 1, 2024; declares special statute necessary due to unique needs of County of Sonoma and City of Santa Rosa following October 2017 Sonoma Complex Fires.