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CA AB2605

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/20/2020

Primary Sponsor

David Chiu

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Origin

State Assembly

2019-2020 Session

AI Summary

  • Requires housing developments with 100% lower-income units to receive at least 4 incentives or concessions (previously exactly 4), allowing developers to request additional incentives beyond the minimum.

  • Authorizes developments receiving waivers from maximum density controls to also receive additional waivers or reductions of development standards agreed to by the local government, previously prohibited except for specific provisions.

  • Clarifies that "natural or constructed impediments" for parking ratio calculations includes freeways, rivers, mountains, and bodies of water, but excludes residential structures, shopping centers, parking lots, and transit rails.

  • Requires distance measurements for developments near major transit stops to be measured from any point on the proposed development's property to any point on the transit stop's property, including parking lots.

  • Establishes this bill as imposing a state-mandated local program but specifies no reimbursement is required because local agencies have authority to levy fees sufficient to pay for the mandated program.

Legislative Description

Density bonuses: affordable housing.

Last Action

Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

5/5/2020

Committee Referrals

Housing and Community Development4/24/2020

Full Bill Text

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