CA AB2580

Authorizes streamlined ministerial approval for converting hotels and motels into multifamily housing, without conditional use permits or environmental review under CEQA.

Requires developers to reserve at least 15% of units for lower income households and 5% for extremely low income households, with affordability covenants lasting 55 years for rentals and 45 years for ownership.

Mandates that structures be vacant for at least 6 months prior to application (waivable if 100% of units serve lower income households), and prohibits local governments from imposing parking standards in certain locations, unit size restrictions, or density limits exceeding original hotel/motel unit count.

Requires developers to certify that either the entire development is a public work subject to prevailing wage requirements, or that all workers will be paid prevailing wages and a skilled and trained workforce will be used; exempts conversions entirely serving lower income households from skilled workforce requirement.

Excludes projects in coastal zones, requires local government review within 30 days of complete application submission, and grants approved projects 5-year approval validity.