CA AB2295

Housing development projects on local educational agency property are deemed allowable uses if they contain at least 10 units with majority affordability to lower or moderate-income households for 55 years, with a minimum 30 percent reserved for lower-income households.

Units must be rented first to local educational agency employees, then adjacent agency employees, then local public employees, and finally the general public, with priority returning to agency employees when units become available.

Housing developments must meet greater of local zoning density/height limits or state-specified minimums (35-foot height limit), satisfy objective zoning and design standards, be on infill sites adjacent to residential uses, and comply with infrastructure requirements.

Local educational agencies must maintain ownership for the full 55-year affordability period and are exempt from state surplus land disposal requirements and certain education code provisions.

Effective January 1, 2024, with the Department of Housing and Community Development required to notify all county and city planning agencies by January 31, 2023; provisions repeal on January 1, 2033.