AB 3122 Summary

• Expands streamlined ministerial approval for multifamily housing to include projects submitted before January 1, 2019 with at least 500 units dedicating 20% of units as affordable (9% at or below 50% AMI, remainder at or below 80% AMI), in addition to existing 50% affordability requirement.

• Reduces local government ability to apply new objective planning standards to modifications by narrowing triggers from changes of 15% or more in total units or square footage to only increases in square footage or decreases in units of 15% or more.

• Adds definition of "urban uses" to include public parks surrounded by other urban uses and parking lots or structures for purposes of the 75% perimeter adjacency requirement.

• Removes the 10-unit cap and public work exclusion for subdivision applications under streamlined approval, instead allowing any development meeting streamlined requirements and receiving low-income housing tax credits or located in certain urbanized areas to be exempt from environmental review.

• Requires local government to provide written documentation of objective standard conflicts within 30 days for resubmitted development proposals addressing previous written feedback, in addition to existing 60-90 day timelines.