Meeting Name: Joint MTC Legislation Committee and ABAG Legislation Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/10/2019 9:15 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Board Room - 1st Floor
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Attachments: May 10, 2019 - Joint MTC Legislation Committee and ABAG Legislation Committee Packet Revised 5
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19-0376 13a. MinutesApproval of ABAG Legislation Committee Summary Minutes of the April 8, 2019 Meeting   Action details Not available
19-0377 14a. MinutesApproval of MTC Legislation Committee Minutes of the April 8, 2019 MeetingapprovedPass Action details Not available
19-0378 15a. ReportLegislative History Detailed list of bills the Commission is tracking in Sacramento and Washington D.C., including those ABAG or MTC supports or opposes.No Action TakenPass Action details Not available
19-0477 15b. Assembly BillAB 69 (Ting): Small Home Building Standards AB 69 would require the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to propose small home building standards governing ADUs smaller than 800 square feet, junior ADUs and detached dwelling units smaller than 800 square feet. The standards must be submitted to the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) for adoption by January 1, 2021.recommended for approvalPass Action details Not available
19-0486 15d. Senate BillSB 6 (Beall): Statewide Housing Site Inventory SB 6 would require that the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) add to the statewide surplus lands inventory locally-identified sites available for housing development as identified in a local agency’s housing element site inventory.recommended for approvalPass Action details Not available
19-0379 15g. ReportTom Bulger’s Report Report from Washington, D.C. advocate.   Action details Not available
19-0544 17a ReportHousing Legislative Working Group Update Report on the work of the ABAG-MTC Housing Legislative Working Group, convened to provide input into staff’s analysis of key housing bills under consideration in Sacramento this year.   Action details Not available
19-0572 1  ReportPowerPoint Presentation   Action details Not available
19-0483 17b1. Assembly BillAB 1481 (Bonta) and AB 1697 (Grayson) - Tenancy Termination: Just Cause Prohibits eviction of a tenant without just cause stated in writing. Requires tenant be provided a notice of a violation of lease and opportunity to cure violation prior to issuance of notice of termination.adoptedPass Action details Media Media
19-0483 17b1. Assembly BillAB 1481 (Bonta) and AB 1697 (Grayson) - Tenancy Termination: Just Cause Prohibits eviction of a tenant without just cause stated in writing. Requires tenant be provided a notice of a violation of lease and opportunity to cure violation prior to issuance of notice of termination.adoptedPass Action details Media Media
19-0511 17b2. Assembly BillAB 1482 (Chiu) - Statewide Annual Cap on Rent Increases Caps annual rent increases by five percent above the percent change in the cost of living and limits the total rental rate increase within a 12 month period to 10 percent.adoptedPass Action details Media Media
19-0512 17b3. Senate BillSB 18 (Skinner) - Keep Californians Housed Act Authorizes a competitive grant program to be administered by Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to provide emergency rental assistance and legal aid for tenants facing eviction, mediation between landlords and tenants and legal education.adoptedPass Action details Media Media
19-0508 17c1. Senate BillSB 330 (Skinner): Housing Crisis Act of 2019 SB 330 is a wide reaching bill that aims to accelerate housing development, provide project proponents more certainty and lower fees, and reduce displacement of existing residents from substandard buildings.adoptedPass Action details Media Media
19-0479 17c2. Senate BillSB 50 (Wiener): Equitable Communities Incentives - Upzoning Near Transit & Jobs-Rich Areas & By Right Allowance for Small Residential Projects in Specified Areas SB 50 would allow varying degrees of higher-density multifamily housing to be built within ½-mile of transit stations, ¼-mile of high-quality bus corridors and in areas designated as “jobs-rich” by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill also provides for smaller, by-right residential development on vacant parcels in urbanized areas.adoptedPass Action details Media Media
19-0480 17c3. Assembly BillAB 1487 (Chiu): Housing Alliance for the Bay Area AB 1487 (Chiu) would establish the Housing Alliance for the Bay Area (HABA) to increase funding for affordable housing in the nine-county region. The bill authorizes HABA to place on the ballot a series of revenue raising measures, subject to certain return to source provisions, to provide funding and technical assistance to local jurisdictions and affordable housing developers to help produce and preserve affordable housing and pay for tenant protection services. The bill provides that HABA would have the authority to buy and lease land for affordable housing purposes, but not the ability to purchase land by eminent domain or regulate or enforce local land use decisions.   Action details Media Media
19-0480 17c3. Assembly BillAB 1487 (Chiu): Housing Alliance for the Bay Area AB 1487 (Chiu) would establish the Housing Alliance for the Bay Area (HABA) to increase funding for affordable housing in the nine-county region. The bill authorizes HABA to place on the ballot a series of revenue raising measures, subject to certain return to source provisions, to provide funding and technical assistance to local jurisdictions and affordable housing developers to help produce and preserve affordable housing and pay for tenant protection services. The bill provides that HABA would have the authority to buy and lease land for affordable housing purposes, but not the ability to purchase land by eminent domain or regulate or enforce local land use decisions.adoptedFail Action details Media Media
19-0509 17c4. Assembly BillAB 11 (Chiu): Community Redevelopment Law of 2019 AB 11 would restore to cities and counties the option to form an entity that can use “tax-increment financing” to pay for affordable housing and other local infrastructure priorities, subject to approval of the Strategic Growth Council.   Action details Media Media
19-0509 17c4. Assembly BillAB 11 (Chiu): Community Redevelopment Law of 2019 AB 11 would restore to cities and counties the option to form an entity that can use “tax-increment financing” to pay for affordable housing and other local infrastructure priorities, subject to approval of the Strategic Growth Council.adoptedFail Action details Media Media
19-0481 17c5. Assembly BillSB 13 (Wieckowski): Accessory Dwelling Units SB 13 would revise ADU law to require that a local government allow studio and one-bedroom ADUs of at least 850 square feet and two-bedroom or more ADUs of up to 1,000 square feet, and would prohibit ADU owner-occupancy requirements. The bill would limit impact fees imposed by local governments, special districts or water corporations to 25 percent of the impact fees otherwise charged for a new single-family dwelling for ADUs 750 square feet or greater and would waive impact fees for ADUs less than 750 square feet. The bill would also limit to 60 days the time a local agency has to issue an ADU permit after receiving an application and create a 10-yeary amnesty program to incentivize owners of existing unpermitted ADUs to obtain the permits and inspections necessary to legalize the units.adoptedFail Action details Media Media
19-0482 17c6. Assembly BillAB 1486 (Ting): Surplus Lands Act Expansion and Revision AB 1486 would revise the Surplus Lands Act (SLA) - the state law that requires local agencies to prioritize affordable housing, as well as parks and open space, when disposing of land no longer necessary for the agency’s use - and other state laws related to making surplus public land available for affordable housing development.adoptedFail Action details Media Media
19-0478 15c. Assembly BillAB 1483 (Grayson): Housing Data/Transparency This bill seeks to make housing fee and zoning standards more transparent by requiring that they be posted on local agency and state web sites, requires local agencies to provide additional reporting of housing permit requests, production and permitting data annually, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to develop an online database of housing production data accessible to the public.recommended for approvalFail Action details Media Media
19-0510 15e. Assembly BillAB 68 (Ting): Accessory Dwelling Units AB 68 would prohibit local Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) standards from including certain requirements related to minimum lot size and replacement parking and would require an ADU (attached or detached) of at least 800 square feet and 16 feet in height to be allowed. The bill would also reduce the allowable time to issue an ADU permit to 60 days after an agency receives a completed application.adoptedFail Action details Media Media
19-0545 15f. Assembly BillAB 1485 (Wicks): Workforce Housing AB 1485 would modify affordability requirements applicable to a developer who wants to take advantage of current law’s by-right provisions in Senate Bill 35 (Wiener, 2017) such that a project could either dedicate 10 percent of the total number of units to housing affordable to households making below 80 percent of the area median income (AMI)-as provided for in current law-or 20 percent to households earning below 120 percent AMI with an average income of units at or below 100 percent-which the bill would add as a new option.adoptedFail Action details Media Media
19-0484 18a. ReportAd Hoc Committee Delegate to the President of ABAG and Chair of MTC the authority to create an Ad Hoc committee, if necessary, to review any bills where substantive disagreement exists, with the objective of providing alternative recommendations to the ABAG Executive Board and MTC Commission.   Action details Media Media